Quotes About Backbenchers

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Corporate normally prefers to recruit backbenchers not because they are talents but often big liars, credit snatchers, dirty politics players etc and such attributes are appreciated in that workplace as their nature matches with the character of the owner and decision makers of that private company.

If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.