As the mud settles on one other wild one, let POLITICO enable you reminisce by rattling via, in no explicit order, the 37 phrases on each extremely-online political kind’s lips this 12 months.
TWO-TIER JUSTICE: A giant speaking level of comeback child Nigel Farage and his followers. They argued that the British justice system handled white and far-right individuals extra harshly, a principle described by one prime cop this 12 months as “nonsense” and an indication that “individuals don’t wish to hearken to the info.” Welcome to the 2020s, pal.
ELON: The Musk man Farage desperately wished to woo — and Prime Minister Keir Starmer desperately wished to mute on X. A famous scholar on the finer factors of the British justice system.
GAMBLEGATE: Member of a deeply unpopular party heading for electoral oblivion? May as properly make *checks notes* £500 on the best way out.
STORM SHADOW: An enormous and severe debate about deepening U.Okay. involvement in Ukraine centered on missiles with a Bond villain identify. Allowed numerous boring political journalists to really feel like they have been in a movie for a bit of bit.
SUPERMAJORITY: Known by normies as a “working majority,” Sunak tried out this one to terrify pensioners about an unchecked, rabidly Marxist Starmer on the unfastened.