buggins

MPs are there to defend us against a wayward or incompetent State, not be buggins 'turn seat-warmers.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

Just machine politicians waiting on the "buggins turn" that has characterised British politics for decades, and which has done nothing to stop a steady slide toward more and more statist control ..

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

This "Government" are an effing crime gang , if the Conservative party had anything about themselves they would have these buggers in jail , not just sit about waiting for buggins turn.

John Reid on Collision Course with the Guardian 2007

Everybody should be angry , but whats the point , no change just more of buggins turn on the political wheel.

The Vaizey/Clegg Affair - From the Horse's Mouth 2007

Senior UN appointments should not be, as they are today, a function of under-the-table national pressure for jobs, an odious internationalised version of "buggins 'turn" in which even the most pious UN members (including the UK) indulge.

open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

I'm not sure about "an ongoing fiscal crisis that destroyed Governor Gray Davis and has all but done in Arnold Schwarzenegger too" If memory servers, Gray Davis was done in as fallout from the Enron fiasco - and the fact he is an extremely dull politician who got elected more on buggins turn than talent - while Arnold Schwarzenegger never really recovered from his attempt to ram through five failed propositions a couple of years ago.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

This "Government" are an effing crime gang , if the Conservative party had anything about themselves they would have these buggers in jail , not just sit about waiting for buggins turn."

John Reid on Collision Course with the Guardian 2007

'pen-pushers' unwilling to challenge the predominant ethos rather than aggressive go-getting innovators found in the private sector; and if the oldfashioned, hierarchical, hide-bound organizational culture of the civil service rewards longevity ( 'buggins turn') and promotes go-with-the-flow career loyalists rather than creative leadership, out-standing job performance, diversity of perspectives, and imaginative problem-solving (Newstrom, Reif and Monczka 1976; Baldwin 1991).

Irish Blogs 2009

But you left the same tracks every day, you buggins, an 'the same tracks every night, all round the blessed premises. "

The Amateur Cracksman 1902

But you left the same tracks every day, you buggins, an 'the same tracks every night, all round the blessed premises. "

The Amateur Cracksman 1893