Comment on Row erupts over Farage constituency surgeries after he told LBC the public ‘will flow through door with knives'

Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In the UK selurgery has 2 meanings.

  The common medical one. And a general alteration.

  This means MPs and parliment have applied the term to the time our representatives spend gaining input from voters in theiir constituancy.

  At the time when the pisition was more regal. IE lords and land owners. It allowed the lords to hear requests for alterations on how they managed the constituancy.

  Now its more about a meeting where MPs hear from indevidual voters about issues they can help with.

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  • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you!

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We also use surgery as you would use clinic. Hence we see our family doctor at the doctor’s surgery.

  When you go to see your representative in parliament, it’s a similar set-up, so they also get called surgeries.

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  • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yup, thank you again. I’d gathered from the article that it was likely a sort of political consultation but even looking in a dictionary didn’t exactly clear it up.

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