lobby fodder

Backbenchers deserve better than to be treated as lobby fodder.

MP's are hardly more than lobby fodder.

Those MEPs in large groups who are content to be lobby fodder for their party leaders do not have to worry.

Lobby fodder will be fearing for their seats and call me Dave will be u turning again.

Oh i just remembered,Harris is lobby fodder at Westminster,not a proper Scottish politician.

This observer has tried various options - "uncritical lickspittles", "flipper-wagging performing seals" and "docile lobby fodder" being but a few.

Only a backbencher, but never mere lobby fodder, this most senior of the Julius Caesars left in the Senate now his older brother, Sextus, was dead.

Rain is more likely to start falling upwards than your average Labour lobby fodder MP is to tell GB to go.

The LibDems had been happy enough to act as lobby fodder in support of these policies until the prospect of the May election caused some to backpeddle.

At which point, robbed of pliant Scottish lobby fodder at Westminster, the Labour Party ceases to exist as a political force in England.

"Most of them are your own appointees, pedarii lobby fodder, but Trebonius and Decimus Brutus are here, so are Basilus and Staius Murcus."

The triviality of this article by a typical MP - which is repeated week after week in local newspapers throughout the country - just demonstrates that MPs are nothing more than voting lobby fodder in Westminster.

The legitimacy of the 300 is really very questionable on many levels and personally i too see no option but the casting aside the mountain of mealy mouthed self-seeking corrupted corporate lobby fodder representatives that pass for 'democracy' at the moment.

Mrs Thatcher was cute enough to see the need to cultivate the backbenchers who made up her lobby fodder and the knighthood became once again the reward for wrecked marriages and broken health caused by sitting up all night to vote as the whips instructed.