noun coined here
in·ter·com·min·gli·fi·CA·tion
The fusing of unrelated items into a single unamendable vote, so that opposing one means appearing to defend the others.
The order was passed by intercomminglification: nobody could vote against one ban without voting against all three.
Etymologyinter- + commingle + -ification. Commingle is already a verb, so -ify is a round trip, and com- already means “together”, so inter- says it twice. Both redundancies are kept on purpose: the word does to its own parts what it describes. The verb inside it turns out to be old (intercommingled is in print from 1847), but the -ification is new: no earlier record of the noun, the adjective, or either un- form.
NoteNear neighbour of intertwinification. That one binds things so they cannot be separated later; this one binds them for the length of one vote, so that they cannot be judged separately now.
To fuse unrelated items into one unamendable vote.
The technique.
The state of the items afterwards.
To separate them again.
The remedy, currently unavailable.
On 30 June 2025 the Home Office laid a single draft order adding three organisations to the United Kingdom’s list of proscribed terrorist groups: Palestine Action, Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement. A proscription order is a statutory instrument, which Parliament can approve or reject but not amend. In the Commons debate on 2 July 2025, Jeremy Corbyn asked why groups are always put together in these orders rather than dealt with separately. The Commons approved the order 385 to 26; after the vote, a Member said on a point of order that everyone who voted no had wanted to ban the other two. The Lords approved the order on 3 July and it came into force on 5 July.