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Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll
(www.express.co.uk)
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16% so far. Tax the wealth. Stop funding the genocide. Stop throwing minorities under the bus. Stop sucking up to nonces. Improve people's lives: we can no longer afford circuses, we can barely afford bread.
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What does nonces mean here? Non native speaker here!
It originated from prisoners who have done something despicable, so that they would be at risk from the rest of the prison population: Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise. NONCE.
Almost none of these abbreviation based etymologies are true - they're made up years later, normally as a joke, and somehow you end up with people spreading them about as facts.
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For me it was Number Used Once in cryptography ๐, or in french it's some sort of arch bishop or something IIRC.
Nonce: child rapist.
Refering to Trump mostly, but our Prince Andrew is also a child molestor. He's walking free and living a life of luxury few of us will achieve.
Seems to be an incomplete anwer, see the answer of @waz
Paedophiles.