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Conservative mp for newton Abbott Anne Marie Morris has been suspended for using the phrase
"Ni66er in a woodpile"
I have to say I've never heard that saying before
I hope she's get sacked
She says it means something different. However given no one else has ever heard the expression she's clearly pissing in the wind
Agatha Christie used it as a chapter title in a Poirot novel Dumb Witness and in the book "And then there were none" Both now changed
Somerset Maughm used it in the " Razors Edge"
Dr Seuss used it in a cartoon
Fell out of use in the later 20th century unsurprisingly.
Used to hear it bandied about a fair bit back in the day.
It is an old fashioned saying which should never have been acceptable back then - certainly not since - and definitely not now.
Another clueless MP.
Why isn't anybody quoting exactly what she said, it's public record.
That's how I knew of the term, but, even if the n word didn't have it's extremely dodgy connotations for any white politician/person who uses it, I would never use it because I didn't know what it meant or where it was derived from - given this,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_in_the_woodpile
there can be no excuse for the way it was used by Anne Marie Morris who joins a none too distinguished roll call of politicians (mostly Tory, but Labour aren't immune from using it either) who have used it in the fairly recent past.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7834291.html