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Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 2

Posted on March 13, 2009January 26, 2025 by admin

Noun.

A Peer – Oxford English Dictionary definition.
1 A nobleman.
2 A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.

Noun.
A Peer – Nu-Labour definition.
1 A man elevated to the peerage by his Nu-Labour cronies.

2 A man who a-peers to threaten parliament with an army of 10,000 Muslims.

3 A man jailed for 12 weeks for ‘texting whilst driving’ who is then released after 16 days because the sentence is affecting his community work.

4 A man who exchanges five text messages during a 17 mile journey at 60 miles per hour on a darkened stretch of the M1, subsequently killing a man in a an accident that he ‘could do little or nothing to avoid’, but who is not charged with ‘causing death by dangerous driving’ because he had stopped texting a full two minutes before the accident. More than sufficient time, it a-peers, to collect his thoughts and concentrate on his driving.

5 A man who has not yet expressed public remorse for the death of Martin Gombar.

6 A man whose criminal record will be expunged so that he can remain within the honourable tradition of the Labour Party.

Further definitions accepted.

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