Citations:omnishambles

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English citations of omnishambles

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  • 2009 October 24, The Thick of It, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi):
    Not only have you got a fucking bent husband and a fucking daughter that gets taken to school in a fucking sedan chair, you're also fucking mental. Jesus Christ, see you, you are a fucking omnishambles, that's what you are.
  • 2010 March 4, Andy Bradshaw, “Bangladesh v England – day five as it happened”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:
    Not wishing to sound to much like Steve 'Steven' Borthwick and Rugby's England Management Omnishambles but England have plenty of positives from this series.
  • 2012 April 18, Ed Miliband, “Prime Minister's Questions”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)‎[1], column 314:
    Over the past month we have seen the charity tax shambles, the churches tax shambles, the caravan tax shambles and the pasty tax shambles, so we are all keen to hear the Prime Minister’s view on why he thinks, four weeks on from the Budget, even people within Downing Street are calling it an omnishambles Budget.
  • 2012 May 6, Jackie Ashley, “The vote shows people are ready to look again at Labour”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:
    It was lucky for Ed Miliband that the local elections coincided with the coalition omnishambles, a rising anti-austerity mood abroad and the horror of the Leveson inquiry revelations – yes, the country really is run by private stitch-up.
  • 2012 November 9, Chris Selley, “Full Pundit: Unparliamentary behaviour”, in The National Post[2], Canada:
    The Globe and Mail‘s editorialists quite rightly excoriate the Senate both for planning to defeat a bill that would allow betting on single sporting events (as opposed to a package of them) on bizarre grounds — namely that it might lead to match-fixing, whereas Vegas and online bookmakers (supposedly) haven’t — and for complaining about this bill not having been “given proper scrutiny,” whereas goodness knows how many omnishambles have sailed through the Red Chamber unmolested.