[toyg]

I have a gut feeling this is a lead balloon, meant to be shot down so that other stuff can pass untouched. This type of bill is typically full of horrible little clauses that would never clear Parliament on their own, but if you bag enough of them together, pushing them all at the same time, eventually some will make it through.

[accountofme]

I think you mean Lead Zeppelin...

[toyg]

uhm, no...? https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/20/lead-balloon/

It's a common idiom in political discourse. Or was this a bad joke?

[accountofme]

The band Led Zeppelin is called that because keith moon(iirc) from the who said forming the supergroup "would work as well as a lead Zeppelin".

It was a historical joke :)

[mellavora]

the band chose the name Led Zepplin as a pun on the phrase lead balloon.

[hardlianotion]

That would be Led Zeppelin...