Political Buzzword Watch

[twentythreedom]

Economic migrants

The connotations are sickening

 

[Sprocket.]

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

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Obviously Flint because a camera is in the room, as is noted throughout the Don Valley if you want Flint get some cameras there!

 

[Sprocket.]

Historically speaking = yesterday.

 

[Dogsauce]

"It's now time we had an honest debate about... "

 

[twentythreedom]

Historically speaking = yesterday.

Yeah. 'Historic' sex abuse fucking Orwellian. Means nothing, makes it sound like it matters a bit less or something.

 

[The Pale King]

Cracking thread. A few that grind my gears:

"Let's be clear / let me be clear"

"toxic"

"politics of envy"

"not fit for purpose"


...what pisses me off is that this shit pollutes the culture and people end up repeating and referencing these bullshit phrases even when they don't mean to. And once you're talking in these categories (esp. the sort mentioned upthread - wealth creators / economic migrants etc) you're half way to thinking in them.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

What annoys me most is that Caroline Flint is absolutely gorgeous for a woman of 53, yet her politics are completely toxic, Blairite and Tory. Also she knows it and plays up to her image. That is dangerous.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

What annoys me most is that Caroline Flint is absolutely gorgeous for a woman of 53, yet her politics are completely toxic, Blairite and Tory. Also she knows it and plays up to her image. That is dangerous.

I'm really not sure where to begin or end with that post.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

i've always detested "the real world". The implication of those who use it is that they know WHAT'S GOING ON (very hard to actually guage from 70 million here or 7 billion worldwide) and the rest of us are living in..well what? Something not "real" I suppose, like lego or holograms.

In truth, it's all real...the cossetted existence of the parasitic elite, the misery of the destitute refugee and the huge myriad of experiences in between.

 

[Flavour]

The Muslim community's responsibility

 

[tim]

Outside the Westminster bubble.

 

[tim]

Issues not personalities

Oh and the oft expressed desire "to put an end to Yah Boo politics"

 

[brogdale]

I'm really not sure where to begin or end with that post.

Corker!
A 'hot babe' but not a 'red hot babe'!
Well past beer o'clock post?

 

[ViolentPanda]

What annoys me most is that Caroline Flint is absolutely gorgeous for a woman of 53, yet her politics are completely toxic, Blairite and Tory. Also she knows it and plays up to her image. That is dangerous.

So, you like stern women eh, Hokey?
What next? Revelations of a schoolmistress fetish, and reminiscences of a thrashing one gave you, when you were a lad?

 

[ViolentPanda]

"Let me just say that..." - shut it, I'm trying to trot out my pre-scripted soundbite.
"Is it reasonable in this day and age...?" - I want to take us back to the practices of the Victorian era.

 

[nino_savatte]

"We have to take the tough decisions".
"We need to stick to the [long term economic] plan".

 

[brogdale]

Have we had "grown-up" yet?

 

[nino_savatte]

Historically speaking = yesterday.

As the great Gil Scott-Heron said in B-Movie.

The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can - even if it's only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards.

 

[peterkro]

"Let me just say that..." - shut it, I'm trying to trot out my pre-scripted soundbite.
"Is it reasonable in this day and age...?" - I want to take us back to the practices of the Victorian era.

Anybody politician or not who uses "in this day and age" deserves a neck shot.
/Stalinism.

 

[isvicthere?]

i've always detested "the real world". The implication of those who use it is that they know WHAT'S GOING ON (very hard to actually guage from 70 million here or 7 billion worldwide) and the rest of us are living in..well what? Something not "real" I suppose, like lego or holograms.

In truth, it's all real...the cossetted existence of the parasitic elite, the misery of the destitute refugee and the huge myriad of experiences in between.

See also "common sense" and "cloud cuckoo land."

 

[Steel Icarus]

'The Nation's Credit Card' or whatever fatuous attempt to reduce the complexities of a country's economy to the relative simplicity of a household budget they use when justifying cuts.

 

[isvicthere?]

'The Nation's Credit Card' or whatever fatuous attempt to reduce the complexities of a country's economy to the relative simplicity of a household budget they use when justifying cuts.

Very similar to "the Taxpayer."

 

[isvicthere?]

As the great Gil Scott-Heron said in B-Movie.

The first thing I wanna say (to David Cameron) is.......... mandate, my arse!

 

[brogdale]

"Fairness".
Usually in reference to bankers, hedge-fund managers, the super-rich etc.

 

[redcogs]

"Going forward" is a phrase i notice frequently, and its usually a justification for the opposite - ie, returning to the 1930s.

 

[The Pale King]

"up and down the country..."

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

"We have to take the tough decisions".
"We need to stick to the [long term economic] plan".

"tough decisions" is always used as if the "tough" implies "irefutably correct"

 

[Buckaroo]

"tough decisions" is always used as if the "tough" implies "irefutably correct"

That's 'Irrefutably correct' if you're being irrefutably correct etc

 

[J Ed]

"Fairness".
Usually in reference to bankers, hedge-fund managers, the super-rich etc.

See also 'divisive' when discussing anything that might hinder the profits of the above

 

[DotCommunist]

"up and down the country..."

to places they've never been except for a holiday or an akward photo op