• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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        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.

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        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.

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    It’d be more realistic if she had held it by the neck in one clenched fist. More on brand.

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      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.

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    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…

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

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      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.