gesture politics

So this can only be a question of gesture politics.

"But I think what people want to know is that we are in the business of serious policy, not gesture politics."

This is neither the time nor the place for gesture politics.

This kind of gesture politics, however, is not enough. Real and substantive reforms are required.

But if this is to prove more than gesture politics, a number of challenges must be faced.

He added that the planned deployment of 1,400 troops was nothing more than "gesture politics."

It is gesture politics at their worst with the clear ideology of the author taking precedence over good sense.

What sort of a message is this in the context of European gesture politics?

All the new things sound like gesture politics.

There was too much gesture politics going on and too little capacity to carry out the plans.

This was stupidity and gesture politics at its worst.

So, it is simply business as usual with some gesture politics from the Norwegian trolls.

The expression "gesture politics" generally describes the substitution of symbols and empty promises for policy.

Gesture politics, as ever with this dishonest, incompetent rabble.

But like the other kind of gesture politics, this one implies a citizenry that is either easily bamboozled or disengaged.

Gesture politics - say yes!

Gesture politics and camping it up are all very well, but its really the province of single issue presure groups rather than serious political parties.

But the destruction of the tusks from 1,800 slaughtered animals was, at a more mundane level, an example of gesture politics.

Repeatedly he defends realism against gesture politics.

More pointless gesture politics with matching accessories.

So who cares, it's gesture politics.

We might regard this as gesture politics, but he wanted to show that St Augustine's origins lie in what is now Algeria.

The invidious 20 per cent rule change has fulfilled its purpose: the group has been prevented from operating, even at the level of gesture politics.

Ghastly gesture politics.

Gesture politics is not my priority, but it is my priority to get the best deal for all those consumers we represent here in Europe.