Lib Dems are the most sweary peers in the House of Lords Warning: This article contains swear words Lib Dems are the most foul-mouthed peers in the House of Lords on Twitter, […]

Warning: This article contains swear words

Lib Dems are the most foul-mouthed peers in the House of Lords on Twitter, according to new research revealed exclusively to i.

Six of the top 10 “sweary peers” are Lib Dems, with Baroness Sarah Ludford leading the pack with 51 profanities in 2017.

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It’s a pretty admirable feat given that peers only managed to score 287 swears between them across the whole year.

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According to Polimonitor’s analysis of her use of bad language on Twitter, Baroness Ludford is partial to using “shit” and “twat” herself, but when it comes to retweeting the profanities of others, anything goes.

Other Lib Dems who indulge in sweary rants include Paul Tyler and Lord Goddard.

The second most swearword-prone Lord is Labour’s Michael Cashman, who seems to favour the word “bastard”.

Top Ten Sweary Peers: Sarah Ludford – 51 – Lib Dem Michael Cashman – 41 – Labour Paul Tyler – 24 – Lib Dem Dave Goddard – 20 – Lib Dem Ralph Matthew Palmer, Lord Lucas – 14 – Conservative Meral Hussein -Ece 11 – Lib Dem Shas Sheehan – 11 – Lib Dem Andrew Adonis – 10 – Labour Jenny Jones – 8 – Green Party Lynne Featherstone – 8 – Lib Dem

Also appearing in the top 10 is Andrew Adonis. It seems we could have predicted he would resign as chair of the government-backed National Infrastructure Commission in protest over Brexit if we had kept a closer eye on his use of swear words.

“While Andrew Adonis’ recent resignation may have surprised a few, he was signalling his displeasure with the governments direction on Brexit, in fairly robust language, for months on Twitter,” said Sam Cunningham, Co-founder of PoliMonitor.

Labour’s Jess Phillips has been crowned the most sweary MP of 2017, but even she couldn’t beat Baroness Ludford’s tally of 51 profanities.

Top Ten Sweary MPs: Jess Phillips – 39 – Labour Angus MacNeil 28 – SNP Mike Gapes – 16 – Labour Jonathan Reynolds – 12 – Labour Dr Philippa Witford – 9 – SNP Andrew Gwynne – 9 – Labour Dawn Butler – 9 – Labour Chris Bryant – 8 – Labour Stella Creasy – 7 Labour Robert Syms – 7 – Conservative

What counts as a swear word?

While some may believe only a select few utterances count as full-blown swear words, Polimonitor is slightly more liberal in its classification: