Politicans' nicknames

[bibblebub]

Anyone thought of any suitable sobriquets for current politicians? How about:

Michael Gove the slimy tove

He's just been on the telly and it's difficult to find a rhyme for that name.

I am aware that in Jabberwocky the toves are slithy, but slimy seems more appropriate. Humpty Dumpty says " 'Toves' are something like badgers, they're something like lizards, and they're something like corkscrews. [...] Also they make their nests under sun-dials, also they live on cheese." so an almost perfect description of the current Education Secretary.

[scotman]

Please explain the word 'tove'

[boxtops]

" 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy was the borogrove, and the mome raths outgrabe."

crumbs, I remembered that off the top of my head!

[boxtops]

scotman, it's here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

[scotman]

Thanks for that Box. I haven't read the poem but I did see the film. Many years ago now and obviously the word didn't stick.

[nonomaybe]

I'm not sure how you regard Michael Gove but I think that he is one of the few members in the current Government trying to improve matters, in his case the awful education system that has developed over several decades.

[bibblebub]

Is the whole of my question visible to other people? I gave Lewis Carroll's description of a tove in the last paragraph.

And clearly the politicians must be such a bland lot that no-one can think of any nicknames.

[scotman]

The last part was not visible when I first looked; that's why I asked.

[nonomaybe]

Don't forget bibble, that politicians nowadays have, to get on, toe the Party line.So until someone breaks cover the general epithet "forked-tongue incompetent" will have to do for most of them (even my fave Eric seems to have gone quiet).

[bibblebub]

it's quite a pickle, just wish some of them were fickle

[oranger]

Ian Austin-Old Banger
Stuart Bell-Ding Dong
Pat Glass-Half Empty
Peter Bone-Dog N
Roger Gale-Windy
Ed Balls-All

[bibblebub]

vg, just wish that I had heard of half of them

[boxtops]

I've only heard of the last two - Gale because he's fairly local to me, and Balls because he's Cabinet.

[oranger]

I had nothing else to do before the paper came, so trawled through a list of MPs.