parish-pump 
adjective [attributive] British
Of local importance or interest only; parochial: I looked down on parish-pump politics...
- The obvious differences are that the local commercial news is more concerned with local, parochial, parish-pump, ambulance chasing, fire-engine chasing-type stories, than we are.
- The rude phrase for it is parish-pump politics, but a kinder way of looking at it is that it's a way of doing business that preserves the element of human relations in bureaucratic transactions.
- However, Mr Kelleher yesterday accused Mr Noonan of doublespeak and parish-pump politics by urging the State to cover Limerick City Council's potential €50m liability.
Synonyms
provincial, unsophisticated, small-town, parochial, parish-pump, insular, inward-looking, limited, blinkered, bourgeois, middle-class, conservative, petty, close-minded, myopic, introverted, illiberal, hidebound, intolerant
- inappropriate
- inappropriately
- inappropriateness
- inapt
- inaptitude
- inaptly
- self-excited
- self-executing
- self-existent
- self-explanatory
- self-expression
- self-expressive
- self-faced
- self-feeder
- self-feeding
- self-fertile
- self-fertilisation
- self-fertility
- self-fertilization
- self-fertilized
- self-fertilizing
- self-financed
- self-financing
- self-flagellation
- self-flattering