I think there's another definition of surgery being used here with which I am wholly unfamiliar.
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Yep, it's what the yanks call a townhall.
And what do y'all call surgery? "Slicey knifey back to lifey?"
Well I do now
Old English vs modern. Original meaning was to alter something.
As our political system grew from royal land allocation where Lords were in control of the laws of their own serfs.
Surgeries were how locals talked with Lords abouts altering contracts and management of the land laws etc. More like a court then a town hall.
As we moved to a democratic system and the house of commons gained power. MP took over the job / terms.
Also surgery. But we're capable of knowing which homonym is meant by context ;)
I dunno, I thought he was having face surgery at first
a "surgery" in British politics is like a town hall meeting, but one person at a time.
A political surgery is a series of one-to-one meetings that a Member of Parliament or other political officeholder may have with their constituents
he had been advised not to hold in-person surgeries by the Speaker’s Office
Apparently this is false. From PA Media:
"The Speaker’s Office and Parliament’s security team have no recollection of telling Nigel Farage that he should not hold in-person surgeries in his constituency, the PA news agency understands."
I can’t believe Nige isn’t even going to pretend to do his job. Shocked.
I find it's endemic among Nigels
Of course that's the reason. It's got nothing to do with him being a lazy cunt.
It's just an excuse to not do his job. Too much like work.
I'm not British but if this guy is so scared of his constituents stabbing him, why not just wear an anti-stab vest? You could be relatively safe and still able to talk face to face. Also just put some metal detectors up.
They probably want to stab him on his stupid face.
On, in or around most likely.
MPs having to wear stab vests is not a good thing.
Or just use a polycarbonate screen like banks do.
I'm conflicted. It's because he's a lazy cunt that would rather rake in money from whatever he's shilling through the media than do his job. With that said, the people of Clacton were thick enough to vote for him, so in many ways they deserve a MP that can't be fucked to represent them.
That's good news really. Who wants to see him and smell his fag and beer breath close up?
He will use this as a political stunt.
This wouldn't surprise me at all and is a sad indictment of the decline of political debate in this country.