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.
so it's actually closer to one of those psychic surgeries where the fake doctor pretends to do surgery but then you die of cancer 9 months later
Funny but no.
Its just surgery as a word is way older then our willingness to slice humans and stick our hands in.
We only applied it to that around the late 1800s.
But its forgivable that teenage nations like the US are confused. We as your parents have failed to educate you in many ways.
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
He still got some mileage in the bullfog face he got last time.
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'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.
Or just use a polycarbonate screen like banks do.
He isn't scared of being stabbed. He just doesn't want to go to Clacton.
MPs having to wear stab vests is not a good thing.
They don't have to wear stab vests. Literally no MPS use a vest. He's just a disingenuous twat who has thought of an excuse which isn't very clever and is easily disprovable, but he is sticking with it because his tiny mind can't come up with another idea.
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.
No it's a total coincidence.
Maybe this speaker's office told him it was inappropriate to hold surgeries from inside trump's backside, since that's where he spends most of his time.
It's just an excuse to not do his job. Too much like work.
Given the fact that both MPs that have been murdered in the UK have been committed by hard right lunatics, I'd have thought he was the safest of all MPs.
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.
I live in an area with the same amount of general thickisge as Clapton, the only difference here is that it isn't the entire constituency. The rest of the constituency generally contains people capable of simultaneous walking and spitting and as such didn't vote for an idiot racist party.
There will be the odd few people in Clapton who didn't vote for this idiot and now there have been to suffer him. I feel sorry for 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.
Too many low flying milkshakes?
This wouldn't surprise me at all and is a sad indictment of the decline of political debate in this country.
If you bother to read the article you would have realized that it's been disproved.