Some think it is an emerging trend, perhaps even a cousin to leftish virtue-signalling.

一些人认为这是一种新兴趋势，甚至可能是左派美德信号的近亲。

Instead the opposite happened.The SNP has hoovered up the sprawling, leftish Yes (to independence) movement and turned it into a campaigning machine.

可苏格兰国名党不仅没有四分五裂，反倒吸纳了周边杂乱无序的区域，同意了左翼独立运动，并且将其变为一个竞选机器。

In February Mr Cameron claimed that the two leftish parties were halfway up the aisle and preparing for a honeymoon in North Korea.

今年二月，卡梅伦声称，这两个左翼政党只是路才走了一半，而且是准备在朝鲜度蜜月。