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Monday, 2 September 2019

Wordplay - Gauke



Gauke - verb; to distort esp politically; after David Gauke a UK politician

1. "Mr Gauke said he was prepared to put the national interest ahead of his own, showing his firm determination to gauke the term national interest."

2. "In order to make political capital Mr Corbyn has gauked his long-standing position on the EU."

3. "Mrs May had to resign after attempting to gauke the meaning of the word leave in her Brexit negotiations."

4 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Looking at his wiki entry, he is apparently as creative with financial regulations as he is with political language. He's had a well-deserved borissing, and let's hope he gets soubriated in the next election.

Scrobs. said...

Quite a few 'miserables' on the Tory remainers list, won't be missed.

My MP, Greg Clark will be a problem though, because Tunbridge Wells has drains-full of blue rinse, coupled with a dead town centre and a lot of dissatisfied people as well. If they get a true Brexit Party candidate, it would be a superb battle!

Sackerson said...

I like a new word I read in the Daily Mail's Henry Deedes: "glumdrops."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7400471/Nigel-Farages-new-operation-slicker-Castrol-conference-showed-today.html

A K Haart said...

Sam - let's hope so. Brexit is certainly flushing out the duds.

Scrobs - that's right, the 'miserables' won't be missed. Too many of them.

Sackers - 'glumdrops' is a good one - worth pinching.