Boris Johnson Calls Labour ‘Supine Invertebrate Protoplasmic Jellies’

The reason? For not agreeing with him on the Brexit divorce bill.

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By Flavia Jackson

October 17, 2017 at 12:02 PM UTC

Updated on

October 17, 2017 at 1:40 PM UTC

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Boris Johnson mined the English language yet again to find a novel way to insult the Labour opposition ahead in U.K. opinion polls: “Supine invertebrate protoplasmic jellies,” resurrecting a term he used in 2013.