camp follower:
(plural: ‘camp followers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)
a camp follower of the past
(old usage) a woman (prostitute) or a vendor (seller of things) who was not a soldier but who followed the soldiers on march to earn money from the soldiers by giving them sexual pleasures or things they needed whenever they camped;
a person who follows the ideas or policies of a group without being a member of that group;
a politician who joins a political party or movement for personal gains,
Some historians believe that the American War of Independence would not have been won if it had not been for the ‘camp followers’, who were mostly the wives and children of the soldiers, who actually helped the soldiers by doing all sorts of chores whenever they camped.
I wonder now why all of a sudden the climate ‘camp followers’, those that cried out loud about the global warming and green house effect, have stopped pouring out their concern!
Some of the journalists and TV news channels are accused of being camp followers of one political party or the other, by not keeping up the true journalist values but just voicing the policies of a particular political party.
