The word "rump" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun or a verb. Example sentence: After the fire, the rump of the house was all that remained.
One recent opinion poll suggests that a massive swing to the Nationalists at the general election could reduce the number of Scottish Labour MPs to a rump of just four.
It had gone for "a rump to a real opposition party", he said.
That way we can cede the centre to the social democrats in New er) Labour and the Lib Dem rump and concentrate on building a mass movement that represents the aspirations of millions of people for a radical alternative.
However, they did give David Cameron a sizeable majority, which he now lacks, and those of us with long memories will remember how that slender win in 1992 played out for John Major, whose war of attrition with a rump of rightwing MPs became emblematic of his demise.
False breasts were banned from page 3 (at readers' request) in 1997, and the cheesier poses and wildly punning captions ("A lovely bit of rump and the topside's tasty too... MEAT luscious Laura Frankland – the first Page Three beauty who is also a qualified BUTCHER") were binned a year later.
The Lib Dems were reduced from 56 MPs to a rump of just eight on a dreadful night that saw them routed in former strongholds in the south-west, and across large swaths of the rest of the country.
Labour would surrender 29 of the 41 Scottish seats that Gordon Brown won in a strong 2010 performance, being reduced to a rump of just 12 MPs – a performance that makes it virtually impossible to walk into No 10 without the support of the SNP.
Even if Labour are reduced to a mere rump of Scottish seats after 7 May, they ought to draw some comfort from the fact that the flames may soon also engulf the SNP.
Graham Greene, infamously, reviewing Wee Willie Winkie in the London weekly Night and Day, wrote: "Infancy with her is a disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult … her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong searching coquetry … watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity.
SF can still make marginal gains, but I suspect the rump of the remaining SDLP votes (and a large number who have simply stopped voting) will never go across to SF, in precisely the same way that some UUP hardline anti-Belfast agreement voters would never have voted DUP under any circumstances.
A retail offer will take longer (it probably wouldn't happen until next spring and then the government would have to hang on to the rump loyalty shares for 12 months) and will involve discounts.
