loony left
noun1
Government, Politics Australia, New Zealand, UK, Derogatory Left-wing politicians or activists whose policies or ideas are considered to be ridiculous or too politically correct.
- Tories Play Loony Left Card1986: Headline in The Guardian, 18 Nov 1986
- The Earl of Halsbury ([Hansard] 1986 p310) spoke of how he had been ‘warned that the loony left is hardening up the lesbian camp and that they are becoming increasingly aggressive'.1988, Michael Urben, Biography and Education:
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- 1988: John Twitchin, Introduction to The Black and White Media Book The term ‘anti-racist' has become associated with ‘left-wing sentimentality', not to say ‘loony left extremism'.
- I sold the story to The Sun for school funds. They led with TROUBLESOME TOT over another piece about LESBIAN LOONY LEFT IN RIOTS.1989: Fred Sedgwick, Here Comes the Assembly Man: A Year in the Life of a Primary School (referring to an event in 1988)
- They claimed that the London Boroughs Grant Scheme should be eliminated so that ‘public money' would no longer be spent on ‘"loony left" projects such as black lesbian groups'.1992: Kenneth (EDT) Plummer, Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences, referring to "leaflets distributed by the Conservative Party local constituency association in Surbiton before the May 1991 elections"
- The exaggerations of the Thatcher [Conservative] governments, and the fabrications of the tabloid press, concerning the measures invoked by certain Labour councils in order to tackle discrimination and disadvantage led to coinage of the term 'loony Left'. The Government and its allies in the media ridiculed and reviled the principles and policies of such Labour councils, leading people to believe that one would not be allocated a job or house unless one was a disabled vegetarian single-parent lesbian from an 'ethnic minority' background.1995, Peter Dorey, British Politics Since 1945: