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this is very likely true and it is fair to assume from your username that you’re familiar with uk slang/slurs. also probably fair to assume that grant/naylor would deny it if asked

smeg certainly means dickcheese but i’d guess before being popularised by red dwarf it wouldn’t have replaced other four letter words in constructions like smeg head, smeg off, smeg you etc

on the subject, with ‘gimboid’ they were ahead of their time in using the -oid suffix for insults

the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn’t have had enough influence to push it through regardless