parish-pump in the PONS Dictionary

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The politics were becoming parish-pump politics and that depressed him.
www.telegraph.co.uk
I champion the local but abhor the incestuous and prying nature of parish-pump politics.
www.universitytimes.ie
Some commentators have dismissed the election of independents as merely the rise of parish-pump politics and populism, with no progressive content.
www.spiked-online.com
If there is no big picture, the vacuum will be filled by narrow sectional parish-pump agendas.
www.independent.ie
Radical political reform is a dead duck - there will be no change to an electoral system that is anchored in parish-pump politics and clientelism.
www.independent.ie

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