Backbenchers
Backbenchers are MPs who chill at the back because they have no ambition to become a minister, because who the fuck cares about power so long as they get to blabber about their own shit? Others are there because they're filling out the end of a distinguished (or pathetic and humiliating) career on the frontbench by hanging out in the back of the classroom shooting rubber bands at the heads of their replacements, or because they're ambitious n00bs who have yet to be promoted. Still others are consigned to the backbenches because they are terminally crap, or because they're from a minor party that will never, ever be in power.
Favourite activities include trolling, raising points of order that are not real points of order, tabling demented Private Member's Bills, filibustering other people's demented Private Members' Bills with irrelevant digressions about history, their constituency, their biography, or their personal pet peeves, and making their own Government's life hell.
Notable Backbenchers[edit | edit source]
- PETER BONE!!!
- Dennis Skinner
- Tom Watson
- David Nuttall
- Philip Davies
- Ben Bradshaw
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Tim Farron
- Douglas Carswell
- Charles Walker
- Ken Clarke
- Chuka Umunna
- Harriet Harman
- Sadiq Khan
- Yvette Cooper
- Mary Creagh
- Simon Danczuk
- Iain Duncan Smith
- John Whittingdale
- Angus Robertson
- Tom Pursglove
Backbench Gangs[edit | edit source]
- Conservative Backbench Circle Jerk Society
- Socialist Campaign Group
