• @GeneralEmergency
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      273 months ago

      Backbencher is an actual term for a member of parliament without a government office.

      • @[email protected]
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        453 months ago

        That’s why UK insults are the best. Referring to a backbencher as a backbencher isn’t an insult. Referring to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as a backbencher, because she lost her office and now sits on the back benches, is an insult. It’s an incredibly snide remark that seems perfectly normal unless you know why it’s not.

      • theinspectorst
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        33 months ago

        No, it’s member of Parliament who’s not a frontbencher - i.e. who’s not a government minister or an official spokesperson for their party in Parliament.

        Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves and Ed Davey don’t hold government office, since they’re opposition politicians, but they’re not backbenchers.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      Pork markets. Cheese. Disgrace!

      I’ve no idea how the Tory party collapsed so hard as to leave her in the upper echelons of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    213 months ago

    Liz Truss has been mocked after sharing an Easter message alongside a picture of herself holding a lamb outside a church which was devastated by a fire two years ago

    That lamb is looking pretty good after its fire ordeal…

  • @cmbabul
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    163 months ago

    I figured y’all would’ve locked her up after QE died like a week after meeting this woman

    • Optional
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      83 months ago

      Yeah there’s hardly any tear gas in that propaganda

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      33 months ago

      Nanny has been been a little too busy recently to watch him, but she promises she will if he’s a good boy and works hard to punish all the nasty poors.