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

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well done to the people of Clacton for electing such a hard working man of the people.

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  • Baggins@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good old Nige, salt of the earth.

    Or so he should be.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I hope someone in Clacton opens a shop selling cement milkshakes

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• Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m a dumb American who has never seen the word surgeries used in this context. Can someone explain?

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  • 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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• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  He was useless as an MEP as well.

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