English Dictionary

parish pump politics

noun

(Ireland, derogatory, informal) political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest.

Parish pump politics is a term used in Ireland to describe local politics that focus on small, local issues.

意味（1）

(Ireland, derogatory, informal) political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest.

Thomas Bardel Brindley (1875) Hints, Humorous and Satirical, to all the world and his wife (Wit and humor), Simpkin, Marshall&Company, page 6: “7.—Never avoid bars or smoke-rooms, because in the former case you miss the chance of marrying a flirt, and in the latter of having your mind improved by local parish-pump politics, and your head broken by a fool in his cups.”