As the new dust settles, POLITICO rattles off, in no particular order, the 37 words that came out of every online politician’s mouth this year to help you reminisce.
TWO-TIER JUSTICE: The big buzz for comeback boy Nigel Farage and his fans. They claimed that the British justice system treats white people and far-right people more harshly, but this year one top cop described the theory as “nonsense” and said it was “unlikeful for people to listen to the facts”. He said it was a sign. Welcome to the 2020s, man.
Elon: Mr Farage, the masked man, desperately wanted to persuade, while Prime Minister Keir Starmer desperately wanted to silence X, a renowned scholar on the finer points of the British justice system.
Gamblinggate: Are you a member of a deeply unpopular political party headed for electoral oblivion? You might as well make a *check memo* £500 on the way home.
Storm Shadow: A large and serious debate about Britain’s deepening involvement in Ukraine centers around a missile named after a Bond villain. It made a lot of bored political journalists feel like they were in a movie for a little while.
Supermajority: Mr Sunak, known to the public as the ‘Labour majority’, tried this tactic to scare pensioners about Starmer, a fanatical Marxist on the loose.
