Political Buzzword Watch

[ItWillNeverWork]

I thought it would be nice to have a place where all the popular buzzwords that our politicians are using can be posted. To kick off the proceedings, a poem.

The Cost-of-living Crisis is for the Tories hard to see.
But everything will be fine so long as we have The Big Society.
Just the other day we were all so Aspirational.
But now it seems we're Unelectable.
One Nation, British Values, Squeezed Middle, Third Way.
For fixing Broken Britain, Hardworking People must surely pay.

 

[NoXion]

"Hard-working families" never fails to piss me the fuck off.

 

[DotCommunist]

wealth creators


oh and 'robust'. It means full of holes and half arsed

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Ooh, and Google Trends:

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

wealth creators

That's a particularly annoying one.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

It turns out people only became hard working in October 2013.



And the middle was squeezed twice - once in May 2013 and again in May 2014. How will ever it survive this endless onslaught of squeezing?

 

[Lurdan]

 

[DaveCinzano]

And the middle was squeezed twice - once in May 2013 and again in May 2014. How will ever it survive this endless onslaught of squeezing?

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I'm pretty sure two squeezes is on the threshold of a grope.

 

[Sifta]

"pro-business" & "anti-business"

 

[J Ed]

"Internationalist" meaning pro-EU, pro-NATO rather than, you know, actual international solidarity

 

[brogdale]

"Look" ("Listen") as a passive-aggressive opening to every 'answer' offered in interviews.

 

[Libertad]

"Look" ("Listen") as a passive-aggressive opening to every 'answer' offered in interviews.

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Reinforced by "Now". Now look...

 

[existentialist]

"Look" ("Listen") as a passive-aggressive opening to every 'answer' offered in interviews.

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Is that Priti "Vacant" Patel?

I've never heard her speak, but reading what's written about what she says, I could imagine her being very much the "shut up and listen, BECAUSE I AM RIGHT" type.

 

[Dogsauce]

The one that most makes me want to throw the utterer into a log chipper feet-first is the phrase "the productive part of the economy".

 

[brogdale]

Is that Priti "Vacant" Patel?

I've never heard her speak, but reading what's written about what she says, I could imagine her being very much the "shut up and listen, BECAUSE I AM RIGHT" type.

Flint.

 

[existentialist]

Flint.

Ah. The "leader must snap into line with the deputy" one.

 

[brogdale]

Ah. The "leader must snap into line with the deputy" one.

Yes, that's right...the psychopathic, crypto-crystaline one.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

"Radical"

 

[stethoscope]

"Hard left" for barely left of centre.

 

[Lazy Fare]

Economic "reforms"... BBC have repeatedly used the morally loaded term "reforms" in talking about cutbacks either in Greece or in the UK. Welfare "reforms"... the implication is that the idle and feckless poor need to be reformed and turned away from their sinful ways.

 

[gimesumtruf]

We will listen and learn.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Using the word 'robust' as a catch-all term that implies some form of competence.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

"It is right that....."

 

[DotCommunist]

fairness: we're going to fuck the poorest over.

 

[Wolveryeti]

'We need to have a conversation about X'

Translation: we have already decided to do X, and are now going to drum up the right kind of focus groups that will allow us to pretend it is supported by mainstream opinion.

 

[isvicthere?]

"Get tough on........"

Eta: fingernails scraping down a chalkboard are more pleasing to me than when Camer-cunt says "our country."

 

[existentialist]

Economic "reforms"... BBC have repeatedly used the morally loaded term "reforms" in talking about cutbacks either in Greece or in the UK. Welfare "reforms"... the implication is that the idle and feckless poor need to be reformed and turned away from their sinful ways.

And likewise "welfare reform"

 

[Sifta]

"Campaigners" = hold on a minute
"Activists" = deluded fools
"Militants" = terrorists

 

[stavros]

"Look" ("Listen") as a passive-aggressive opening to every 'answer' offered in interviews.

"Well I think we to remember that [insert assertion only vaguely linked to the question asked]..."

The perfect example;

 

[isvicthere?]

"Campaigners" = hold on a minute
"Activists" = deluded fools
"Militants" = terrorists

"Community leaders."