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Gammon: “a person, typically male, middle-aged, and White, with reactionary views, especially one who supports the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union”

It’s now in the dictionary!
collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/eng…
Not only that, it also made the shortlist for “word of the year”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/0…
But here’s one rather apt meaning I didn’t know...

gammon [v with object]: Hoax or deceive (someone).
e.g. “you’re gammoning me”

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gam…
So presumably that allows for the sentence:

“Stop gammoning me about Brexit, gammon.”
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It directs people to a nice website with warm and fuzzy graphics...

And as soon as you go deeper, you're thrown into the opaque preparedness notices.
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- Turn the HOL into an entirely elected second chamber (its oversight function is useful)
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Government is trying to foist the blame for any Brexit chaos in the adult social care sector off on local authorities and directors of adult social care facilities. This from the letter sent to them on 21 December last year... (Full letter at link below.)
gov.uk/government/pub…
More from the letter:
" Many of these issues will have either a direct or indirect impact on councils and it is also possible that they will have a financial consequence for providers."
More from the letter (doubling down on the "legal" bit):
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