It’s been a term in use in British politics since the 1950s - originally to describe CPGB members who supported the Hungarian invasion, but eventually just as a slur against the left. Alastair Campbell notes in his diaries that Blair used it as an insult in 1996 to refer to himself and David Milliband.
Edit: also this headline is from 2015 when Boris was still just doing corruption as Mayor of London, and the media hadn’t figured out the anti-semitism line against :long-corbyn:
That nit-picking aside it’s still gonna be funny hearing Biden saying “my oppo - the presi…Taylor-Greene says I’m a tanker…cmon man, I haven’t ever been to Hungary, or know any Gary for that matter. It’s a damn lie, I cannot and will not start a fight with Mr. Khrushchev”
I guess this is why I really don't understand the whole "who taught liberals these words" thing. They've been fairly common since before the vast majority of the online left was born.
It’s been a term in use in British politics since the 1950s - originally to describe CPGB members who supported the Hungarian invasion, but eventually just as a slur against the left. Alastair Campbell notes in his diaries that Blair used it as an insult in 1996 to refer to himself and David Milliband.
Edit: also this headline is from 2015 when Boris was still just doing corruption as Mayor of London, and the media hadn’t figured out the anti-semitism line against :long-corbyn:
That nit-picking aside it’s still gonna be funny hearing Biden saying “my oppo - the presi…Taylor-Greene says I’m a tanker…cmon man, I haven’t ever been to Hungary, or know any Gary for that matter. It’s a damn lie, I cannot and will not start a fight with Mr. Khrushchev”
I guess this is why I really don't understand the whole "who taught liberals these words" thing. They've been fairly common since before the vast majority of the online left was born.
:100-com: it’s even recorded in Hansard 10 years ago