Is the phrase losing the whip used to mean being kicked out of the party in the context of British politics?

For example, this article on BBC: Russia report: New intelligence committee chair loses Tory whip.

Or a recent question on Politics: Has a former UK party leader ever been expelled from their own party? "Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the Labour Party, is facing having the whip withdrawn by the new Labour leadership"

@MartinSleziak inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Thanks. (And also thanks for the bounty on Meta Stack Exchange.)

@MartinSleziak I saw that they put the review tag on it, but I wanted to make sure they didn't drag their feet on it. I don't know if it will help or not.

I do not know how much bounties work for feature requests. But at the very least, it was bumped and it gets a few more views.

I have noticed that some of the posts I bountied got status-review, so perhaps it helps a bit. (Although so far none of them is status-completed.)

Today someone posted an answer to one of my first questions on ELL.

I mean, I am now not aware of the extent by which my English sucked once.

It is weird.

It only makes sense when you look backwards.

When somebody posts an answer to my old chemistry question, I realise that I've forgotten 99% of chemistry.

@Cardinal The past is a foreign country. You spoke a different language back there.

@EddieKal Wow That is some high level stuff

@Cardinal It's true even more so in my case

Most importantly, I half grew up in the meanwhile as well

@MartinSleziak SE tied their own laces in the previous drama, and now they have been made to commit more diligently to responding 'officially' to most feature requests, which mostly means just a [status-review] in most cases. If an older question is bountied, it might get an official answer these days. They haven't increased the Community Management team, however, so it's doubtful they truly believe in cooperating with or listening to the community.

@ColleenV Yeah there are rumors that Corbyn will be spanked AFAIK

All I know is he's a handsome old man and talks in a cool manner.

All British people talk in a cool matter, but some are just out of movies.

@M.A.R. Actually it was one of the MSE mods that added the tag back on Jul 13th to try to get it into their queue. Apparently that's how things get triaged now

@M.A.R. The movies are the only reason we think it's cool... ;)

@ColleenV I dunno, Catija and the few other staff that do interact with the community are very hugely overworked, so not much action is to be expected. AFAIK it's that SE did use to have a backlog but nothing was visible so we thought we're being ignored, and now they add the tag to show they 'care'

Shrug

@M.A.R. *manner

@M.A.R. Yes, but they didn't add the tag. A volunteer mod added it. So it doesn't really demonstrate any amount of caring as far as I'm concerned.

I know the CM team is overworked, and I don't blame them

but if we don't complain about stuff, the CM team probably will stay overworked until they burn out

I feel like right now I'm the guy who can't think about anything else because he feels like taking a piss. Back to studying for me, cya

@M.A.R. Happy knowledge seeking

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected (43): Can I use "not like that" here? by user118784 on ell.SE

This is so frustrating

The same people that will argue against censorship are arguing that somehow taking public information and putting it in a useful form is dangerous. What is dangerous is people that think hiding information is a solution to people doing bad things with it.

@ColleenV why is it useful?

The only reasonable scenario is abuse

If anything, it's a showcase of why censorship isn't purely bad, just that it's always used in bad contexts. No one in any part of the world can say absolutely anything they might and walk scot-free.

I also feel like you know the rest of that position so yadda yadda freedom of speech doesn't imply no repercussions yadda yadda