Other choice epithets include "the barmy army" and "swivel-eyed loons".
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Eurosceptic ranks were thick with what Mr Cameron described as "swivel-eyed" lunatics.
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Meloy's "Do Not Become Alarmed" is not that sort of energetic, swivel-eyed production.
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Not bad for a group of "swivel-eyed loons", as Mr Cameron's clique called them.
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Many Brexiteers spent decades in the wilderness, being dismissed as "swivel-eyed loons" by senior Tories.
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The only people in a good mood are swivel-eyed Brexiteers and fever-brained neo-Marxists.
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And there are fans by the swivel-eyed truckload out there, although these days Tony's truck is more of a minivan.
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But its brief flirtation with conviction politicians is beginning to sour, thanks to anti-Semitism on the far left and swivel-eyed incompetence on the Brexit right.
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Not only swivel-eyed survivalists are reaching this conclusion: Gwen Patton of Pink Pistols, a pro-gun gay group, says several new chapters have been founded, while Facebook membership has quadrupled.
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See also: THE SELL-OUT TRAITOR MOB and THE SWIVEL-EYED FEW - Colourful insults used by a Remainer minister of Brexiteers who called colleagues TRAITORS for agreeing to pay Brussels a FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT.
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See also: THE SELL-OUT TRAITOR MOB and THE SWIVEL-EYED FEW - Colourful insults used by a Remainer minister of Brexiteers who called colleagues TRAITORS for agreeing to pay Brussels a FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT.
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But any basic understanding of human psychology would lead you to think of comping as a solitary, fiercely individualistic enterprise—swivel-eyed compers hiding answers from rivals and using dirty tricks to ensure a maximum chance of them winning.
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This was one of many sops to the minority of swivel-eyed hard Brexiteers who have dictated the terms of negotiations ever since the referendum by threatening to blow the Tory Party apart if they don't get their way.
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Since the polls closed Lady Warsi, the party's former chairman, Steve Norris, its former London mayoral candidate, and Andrew Boff, the Conservative leader in the London Assembly, have all condemned their party's swivel-eyed campaign; the latter claiming its "outrageous" tactics have done it "real damage".
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The referendum is not for the most part being debated as a difference of opinion between people who may, genuinely and sincerely, take different views on the issue, but rather as a clash between members of an out-of-touch elite who don't understand the concerns of real people on one side and swivel-eyed racists and liars on the other.
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The remark followed allegations that senior members of the government had characterised Eurosceptic activists as "swivel-eyed loons". Streeter argued that the result of party infighting over the issue would be "a Labour-led government bend[ing] the knee to Brussels". Streeter was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum. In November 2018, Streeter announced his support for Theresa May's Brexit agreement.
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Unlike when Peter Thorneycroft (Chancellor of the Exchequer) resigned in 1958 or Lord Carrington (Foreign Secretary) in 1982, Heseltine's junior ministers Norman Lamont and John Lee did not resign with him. Heseltine was portrayed by Spitting Image as a swivel-eyed lunatic holding a toy helicopter.Crick 1997, pp. 295–6. Brittan had to resign, partly as a result of fallout from the leak of the Mayhew letter, and partly because of his failure to give an entirely truthful answer to the House of Commons about Heseltine's accusation that he had pressured British Aerospace to withdraw from the European Consortium.
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Noakes joined UKIP in 2003, and was its parliamentary candidate in Truro and St Austell in 2005, gaining 5.3% of the vote. Noakes came last of the four candidates in the 2006 UKIP leadership election, with 851 votes. During the election campaign he called the EU a "police state" and advocated UKIP forming a shadow cabinet; Nigel Farage won with 3,329 votes. Noakes left UKIP in February 2007, writing in a letter that the leadership had betrayed the membership; Mark Croucher said Noakes was "a swivel-eyed loon whose insane conspiracy theories make the rest of us look as mad as a box of frogs".
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24505 he was introduced in the House of Lords, where he sits as a Conservative, on 20 December 2010. In 2012, Feldman helped Cameron prepare for the Leveson Inquiry by roleplaying the lead counsel of the inquiry Robert Jay QC. Feldman was severely criticised by one of his Conservative councillors, Catherine Faulks, for failing to vote for her in the 2011 by- election for the Norland ward in Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council. Feldman claimed at the time that he was prohibited from voting as a member of the House of Lords, although this was a misunderstanding. In May 2013, Feldman was widely attributed with making a claim that Conservative parliamentary rebellions on both a referendum on European Union membership and same sex marriage were due to Conservative Associations being "all mad, swivel-eyed loons", a claim that he has denied.
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