0 a problem that politicians from different parties argue about and try to use in order to get an advantage for themselves:
We don't want the immigration issue to become a political football.
The service is fed up with being a political football.
There would be one dickens of a political football if that sort of argument were started again.
I am sorry that aid has been treated as a political football and reduced to a trite and simplistic debate in recent years.
It must not be regarded as a political football to be kicked about for temporary party advantage.
The service tends to get kicked around like a political football.
We should be careful not to turn this discussion into the kicking around of a political football.
The pharmaceutical industry has been a political football for too long, and it is just about time that we stopped kicking it around.
For too long, defence has been a political football.
