gibe - an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; his parting shot was `drop dead'; she threw shafts of sarcasm; she takes a dig at me every chance she gets. Synonyms: barb, jibe, shaft, dig, slam, shot.
Plymouth City Council Leader hits back against budget cuts. Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, hits back against the cuts the budget brings to Plymouth. Tudor said: Over the last year George Osborne announced more cuts to support for local councils, saying that the gap would be made up by councils getting more business rates by 2020.
Ms Davidson, 34, the UKâs first openly gay political party leader, is understood to be very upset about the split after five years from her partner Saskia Halcrow, who is a supporter of the Green Party. The politician met Miss Halcow, who is also 34 and a Royal Bank of Scotland business analyst, at a party in Glasgow.he has set herself the tough task of rebuilding the partyâs fortunes in Scotland, where the Tories have just 17 MSPs and one MP at Westminster. Ms Davidson is a supporter of both the Scottish and UK governmentâs controversial plans to legalise gay marriage.