Caption Competition – Winston Churchill Orders PR Into No. 10 Downing Street
**UPDATE: The Competition is now officially closed! The Queen has just begun her speech for the opening of parliament. Hurray! Thank you all so much for your entries, they have been great. We will be posting a short list of some of the funnier captions, then the voting for the Arena Caption Contest Winner can begin. Check back soon to see if yours made the short list**
Fancy winning not one but two bottles of £100 Pol Roger champagne? Think you’re funny? Feel like mocking our lumbering general election? Read on.
Due to a hung parliament result in our recent general election, us Brits are now waiting for MPs to thrash out an agreement to decide who will govern for the next few months and years. While the politicos strike deals in smoke filled rooms, we’re teaming up with Pol Roger, makers of Winston Churchill’s favourite bottle of bubbly (find out more here: Pol Roger tasting at Arena Flowers), to bring you some light relief from election campaigns and party coalitions.
We’re running a caption competition, from now up until the start of the Queen’s speech on the 25th May (hopefully we’ll have a new government by then). The photo shows cases of Pol Roger being heaved into No. 10 Downing Street for the then Prime Minister, Winston Churchill; we thought it rather apt given No 10′s current predicament.
We’ve put a starter caption of our own on there, but we are sure you can do much better. Please enter using the comments field below. The winning caption will win not one but 2 bottles of Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill Vintage. The prize is worth a whopping £200.00 in value so please get your humour hats on and enter.
Once the competition closes, we’ll invite you to vote for your favourite (very democratic I hear you say). The caption with the most votes wins, so make sure to get your friends and loved ones to come here and vote.
We are looking forward to all your entries – who says there’s no humour in general elections?! Good luck!
UPDATE: The game is up. A government has, it seems, now been formed. Arena Flowers doesn’t take sides and this is not a political blog. The competition will remain open until the Queen’s Speech and entries so far have been very funny! Please play nice and in the light hearted spirit in which this competition was intended. Thanks! :)
UPDATE vol. 2: Wow! What a great response. Thanks so much for all your entries. There are some REALLY funny ones in there. Already our office is debating who will and wont make the short list, it’ll be tight. But there is still time so please keep them coming!
One of the two prize bottles of champagne
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We’ve been moving these since seven o’clock this morning and there’s still two van loads to do.
Changing his milkman brought considerable advantages to Mr Churchill…
“I hope you called Tiger”
“Fiddy’s taste for Cristal to me is just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”.
‘Oh no !’ thought the PC . ‘Not another Hung-over Parliament!’
“Although personally I am quite content with existing flower delivery, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement”.
“As the ongoing expenses scandal is eclipsed by the election, Downing Street celebrates with tax payers money…”
“Whose turn is it to go to the ATM”
“The New incumbent is installed in number 10, and to everyone’s surprise he is French”.
“Surrender”
“In the days before you could fit a bomb in backpack they used to use a series of Champagne Cases to hide the explosives”.
“Pol Roger is a little thing that makes a big difference”.
With the hung parliament showing no signs of being resolved the staff of Downing Street take full advantage of not having a boss…
Brown is inside still, good job the second box is full of lube.
As Nick Clegg takes residence in Downing Street, champagne is ordered in anticipation of who will be joining him…
“Wait a minute lads, you’re a little bit early, Brown is still inside…”
‘Ello, Ello Ello, “Your’e a bit early with the storage boxes mate, he ain’t moving out yet!”
Walk straight on, nothing to celebrate here….
Pop the bubbly Hague, we only went and bloody won it!
“Pickfords ensure that they get the repeat business”. In this Case in around 18 Months. Pun Intended.
“Now young men…. put them back where you found them… and expect no less than an ASBO”
Rodgered Poll
&Co
Why is IO on the door? Considering our debts, “I Owe” seems quite appropriate.
That little lot will probably turn up on expenses as “Alka Seltzer”
I think Mr. Brown might perhaps have preferred a Derringer to a Bollinger
When Mr. Brown asked to have them forwarded to Number Ten, he meant number 10, Oil Drum Lane
Brown ordered online and selected “Next Day” by Parcel Force. Three years later and they still tried to deliver them next door.
The Champagne was flowing and the suits were Brown, just like they will be on May 22nd.
I say , Churchill,which commercial made you opt for this make of bubbly!
Prime Minister would like some bubbly personalities in his cabinet
Your left leg out
In, out, in, out,
You shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around
That’s what it’s all about…
Whoa, the hokey cokey!,
Whoa, the hokey cokey!,
Whoa, the hokey cokey!,
Knees bent, arms stretched, rah! rah! rah!
For this chorus all participants are stood in a circle and hold hands, on each “whoa” they all raise their joined hands in the air and run in toward the center of the circle and on “the hokey cokey” they all run backwards out again. On the last line they bend knees then stretch arms, as indicated, and for “rah rah rah!” they either clap in time or raise arms above their heads and push upwards in time. Sometimes each subsequent verse and chorus is a little faster and louder, with the ultimate aim of making people chaotically run into each other in gleeful abandon. Invariably, somebody ends up on the floor.
There is an endless supply and last one under the table gets the job.
I thought I was here to help with the CAMPAIGN!
Well I had to fill the cabinet with something useful!
I thought the new baby Cameron would be brought up on bottled milk – not champers – still I suppose Dad did go to Eaton!
Eton Boys we are here, drink Champagne instead of beer!
Champocracy!
Coalition with the lib dems!! Who says Conservatives can’t do Champaign Socialism!!
David ignores the well documented effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.
David ensures the generational certainty of Cameron power by continuing the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Not off to a great start I said “ask Roger to pull his weight – not Pol Roger”. Let’s sell it on ebay and see how much money we can put back into the economy.
In Harold Wilson’s day it was beer and sandwiches. This is what happens when you get the Eton elite in charge! Only the best for our Dave!!!
I thought they said the new PM had to have a bubbly personality?
What do you mean have I got ID? I’m a member of the new cabinet.
The Pol’s have closed, oposition Rodgered, lets celebrate in style
Arena lobbies Number 10, with reference to the carve on Capital Gains regarding entrepreneurs
Sorry Roger, it was an exit poll I wanted
No 10 were playing it conservatively with a liberal supply of champagne.
right , when is the strippogram getting here?
“Take`em back mate,Pol Roger doesn`t live here.”
Expense fiddles ain’t a new thing, the system was ConDemmed before it started, especially with Champagne socialists in on the act!
When David said he thought the cabinet needed a tasty box on it he was thinking more Esther McVey than Pol Roger.
“Champagne,well it makes a change from Brown Ale.”
“After drinking this lot,I reckon tomorrow there will be a few early day motions.”
Right which one of them is paying for this little lot, or do we need a vote
With Brown out it was time to celebrate with leaders who knew how to run a P**s up in a brewery and a country out of crisis
David Cameron just sailed in, followed by the crew of the Jolly Roger. singing Yo HO HO and a bottle of Pol Roger!!!
David Cameron waited patiently for the expenses case to arrive and now has a a cabinet to put it in!!
Number 10 new that there was only ever one POL that mattered
it looks like its going to be a long night
“Keep them coming lads and we’ll have a very crate-full house on our hands” said the officer bubbly.
Let’s get more messed up than the General Election.
Sam Cam’s coffee mornings were the hottest ticket in town.
“They thought this would make a good PR campaign”
“Winston says thats the last of them. Take a break chaps and we will bring the boys back from Dunkirk now”
I didn’t think the Lib Dems could be bought so cheaply! Just shows even they appreciate good champagne.
“Pol AND Roger? Must be a coalition!”
ill be ‘downing’ these ’10′ in the street later!
camron lets get this party started
Since everyone must do their share to assist with the war effort, Winston Churchill is offering up his cellar to ensure the “safe” storage of French valuables.
“Never, has so much, been drunk, by so few, on behalf of so many”.
Pol Roger will be standing, perhaps not by the end of the evening!
Bring in the champagne – we’ll screw the country up together and get drunk at the same time!
“Bubbly for the party, officer”
“Tory or Lib Dem?”
A Frenchman bearing gifts, don’t be stupid!
Do you think he’ll say ‘oh yes’ or ‘oh no no no no no’? Ello Ello, it’s not that Churchill you dimwit! As if we’d have a string puppet for a politician!
Look, I understand that it’s a champagne supernova – but why is it being delivered by Michael Parkinson?
It’s a bit early to wet the babies heads, they haven’t been born yet.
Well, you just tell that Mr Sarkozy chap that we ‘ave no Mr Roger living here!
Nobody had voted for Pol Roger either ……
No, sir – when they said “P.R”, they meant proportional representation!
It’s official the new PM has been elected and the Country’s going to get well and truly Roger’d!!
The Coalition excites me,
Pol Roger Champagne delights me,
Just hope the Lib/Con’s invite me.
Nick Clegg made the introduction of PR a condition of his becoming deputy Prime Minister
“Dave says its for the ducks – outside, across the moat: it’s the little island with the wooden house on it.”
When you said something small french & bubbly was on it’s way over I thought you meant Monsieur Sarkozy.
It’s for drinking on the beaches,it’s for drinking by land.We will never surrender the champagne ….
” I know I’m a bit early Constable……but I heard the new baby was going on the bottle ! “
This will be the only fizz this Government’s going to have
The old Prime Minister used to refer to this as his Brown ale
The journalists who reported the MPs’ expenses are listening, so we’ve fitted silent corks
If the case is big enough for you, Gordon, we’ll smuggle you out like this
By the time David and Nick had realised it wasn’t a thesaurus they’d ordered, it was just too late to return it
Like Cleopatra in the carpet, Hazel Blears manages to smuggle herself into Number Ten
Treasury officials respond to the new government’s
demand to inspect the UK’s only remaining assets.
Gordon ordered it before he left – he thought someone said ‘Poll Rigger’.
I said bring me the latest polls Roger not bring me a case of Pol Roger!
They hoped this would be the last Hung, Drawn and Slaughtered Parliament
Oh well, here we go again! Another case goes down the old WC!
To appease the pro European voters Churchill dispenses with the traditional Red attache case in favour of something with a little more pizzazz.
Policeman asking-”Right Son,from the back of who`s lorry did that Pol Roger fall off.” Man-”Gordon Browns removel lorry.”
It’s a coffin really, the last Party was a dead loss.
The final housemate arrives at number 10. Who will be evicted? You DON’t decide!
I know you wanted a shake up in the cabinet but I didn’t think you meant the bubbly!
Looks like Gordon’s bottled out again!
‘It’s one small sip for man…one giant gulp for Winston’.
David and Nick stock up before the emergency budget increases come into force.
Hitler’s last desperate plan to win the war is revealed – exploding champagne. Unfortunately for Adolf it only blew the bl**dy corks off!
Well the boys have struck a deal but lordie knows which will end up the champagne charlie
A supply of water cooler refills are delivered to the committee investigating the expenses scandal.
“Actually officer there’s an extra one coming this week …
seems like the PM took full advantage of this months
b-o-g-o-f-f (Buy one get one free) offer, in more ways than one!”
is this where the facebook party is happenin??
Brown wanted to go out with a bang.
Give us the Pol Roger and we will do the job.
He’s ‘avin a laugh. He told me he was making an Eton mess.
Gene Hunt will be arriving shortly to take delivery. He is having to come by taxi as the Quatro has got a few issues! :-(
david gets ready to pop the question….
It may say that on the box but the budget can’t even extend to Tesco value range wine so its the cheapest we could get!
2 cases? The budget cuts at number 10 were beginning to hurt…
“I’ll have a cigar” Winston said Save the two cases of Pol Roger for the 2010 hung parliament.
Good God What a Waste of a Good Pair of Trousers
The P.M makes a sudden rise in the polls
Jaw Jaw not War War as Cameron and Clegg agree to raise duty on alcohol ?
Pol Roger: putting the ‘Pol’ into politics since 1940
At least the new coalition government have agreed to spend their expenses on the same things!
For Mrs Brown sir ?
No sir, no one here of that name.
a few bubbles always make the political party go with a swing !
David hadn’t realised he’d “shaken up” the wrong Cabinet…..
“Down Downing Street even the Dossers have a taste for the best Champagne
It’s French for parliamentary report
David Cameron – Artful Dodger, to be a leader like Churchill, you need to toast with Pol Roger
“Never in the field of….er human….er…ahem. Never in the conflict …..um…
Never, ever in the….ah….mmmm…………….. Oh sod it!
Doorman, has my carryout arrived yet?
Never in the field of human conflict had so many bottles been delivered to NO10, consumed by so many with so few that remebered actually drinking them.
As usual the government found it easy to sneak in double agents … they were disguised as Champagne delivery boys so as not to get noticed!
While Labour’s losers lurk down in the dampers,
The Coalition converts chortle on champers!
Stanley was too busy posing for the camera to notice the thieving little pickpocket rifling his pockets
maybe you should try putting a cork in it ……..
Since we made £6.2 billion cuts we can spend that money on champers
We promise the coalition will bring new ideas, new standards and …erm vintage champagne!
Sorry we are a bit late – one last delivery for a Mr D Thatcher……
Politicians Often Lie
Regarding Overly Generous Expense Receipts
& Champagne Orders
Thank god, I thought it was pol pot at the reception this evening
Now that’s what I call dispatches!