It meant that the urgent question tabled by shadow chancellor Mel Stride on the increasingly parlous state of the economy was instead answered by Darren Jones, Reeves’s bag carrier.
Her other deputy fluffer, Tulip Siddiq, is currently under investigation for financial fraud allegations. It’s all going so well, isn’t it?
Is there a non-porn meaning of “fluffer” that I don’t know about?
Madeline Grant
Popping up in the Commons, Labour’s human zit
While the Chancellor is China-bound, Darren Jones and his attendant toads prove themselves the smug embodiment of ‘they don’t get it’ Labour
Maybe they mean that one tho’
I was under the impression that only gentlemen in a certain branch of the entertainment industry required the services of a fluff or fluffer.
Perhaps a girl-boss like Rachel from complaints also needs a little boost before entering the house.
Fluffers are another example of a job lost to technology. Viagra made them redundant.
On further reflection perhaps the correct term in this instance would be teaser although the more prosaic “bag carrier” is probably nearer the truth.
(From a historical perspective JFK was the most famous example of a politician making liberal use of fluffers – the wonderfully named fiddle and faddle).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffing
Yes, Tim, but also by extension (!) anyone “employed to prepare or warm up an audience for another act” [OED]
I did enjoy ‘makes Matt Hancock look like Metternich’ which does sum up Darren Jones who ideally should be arrested just on grounds of his appearance alone
From his Wikipedia page:
“Jones became a vegan in 2014, for reasons related to carbon emissions and agriculture, although he is sometimes vegetarian”
Can one get more irritating smugness in one sentence?
I’m getting old ; my eyes are not what they were. I read that as “Jones became a virgin in 2014”