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Following Mr Farage's claim that he had been advised not to hold in-person surgeries by the Speaker's Office, the Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he would advise MPs to take advice from parliament's security team and "do so safely" if they asked him for advice on holding surgeries.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Yep, it's what the yanks call a townhall.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

And what do y'all call surgery? "Slicey knifey back to lifey?"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Also surgery. But we're capable of knowing which homonym is meant by context ;)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I dunno, I thought he was having face surgery at first

this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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