HTG Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 "We need to listen ...". The first utterance of any party which has just been horsed in an election. The inference is that they were not listening before. Labour has used this after 2010, 2015 and 2011. They're not fucking listening at all. It would be refreshing if they changed "we need to listen" to "we made a roaring c**t of it and we'll probably do it again because SNP BAD etc" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 "We need to listen ...". The first utterance of any party which has just been horsed in an election. The inference is that they were not listening before. Labour has used this after 2010, 2015 and 2011. They're not fucking listening at all. It would be refreshing if they changed "we need to listen" to "we made a roaring c**t of it and we'll probably do it again because SNP BAD etc" Labour also seem fond of insisting that "people just weren't listening", which undermines their "we're changing" mantra. It's pretty clear they think they did nothing wrong during the GE campaign - it was all voters' fault for just not listening, the b*****dS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonds are Forever Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 'Well that's a debate/discussion we need to have'. Basically means 'I haven't a scooby how to answer that question, or how my party want me to answer that question, and as I'm incapable of having my own opinion on issues I'd like you to move onto another question please.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 'Well that's a debate/discussion we need to have'. Basically means 'I haven't a scooby how to answer that question, or how my party want me to answer that question, and as I'm incapable of having my own opinion on issues I'd like you to move onto another question please.' This is one of Kezia's favourites. Johann Lamont too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 'Like Switzerland and norway' nearly always said without the slightest idea of how those countries interact with the rest of Europe. Could probably be extended to most comparisons with other countries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 "In real terms " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 "I was speaking to x the other day", where x is a (probably imaginary) constituent who conveniently complained about an issue that has just come up in the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 "Moderates" being used as the acceptable fig lead for "right wing". It's such a cynical, transparent attempt to normalise right wing thinking as the majority/centre, and to tacitly imply that anything else is extreme/marginal/non mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 "Make work pay." Politicians of every hue are guilty of this one, but it's usually a vacuous cover for wages rising at comfortably below the rate of the cost of living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WullieBroonIsGod Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 "I was against the war in Iraq" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotbawmad Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 "Make Britain great again" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 "Of course knowing what I know now..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Most names given to political or economic movements are now completely meaningless and are only used to elicit a real or metaphorical "boo" from authorship. See terms such as socialist, neoliberal, Zionist, liberal, nationalist. These no longer refer to anything factual, it's just a substitute for "my opponent is evil and wicked". Also, people saying that their opponents are "nasty". I blame Theresa May but so many pearl-clutching virtue-signallers now screech "nasty" at people rather than argue with them, address their ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 ^ I add "virtue signalling". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 'British Jobs for British Workers' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Most names given to political or economic movements are now completely meaningless and are only used to elicit a real or metaphorical "boo" from authorship. See terms such as socialist, neoliberal, Zionist, liberal, nationalist. These no longer refer to anything factual, it's just a substitute for "my opponent is evil and wicked". Indeed. At the same time, self-applied labels are used to perform the reverse propaganda trick to garner support - see 'progressive', 'liberal', 'libertarian'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRob72 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 "we will instigate a full enquiry" = "we haven't decided where we can point the blame yet" "we will learn the lessons from this" = " we will continue to wing this until the next f*ck up" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotSquid Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 "Yeah but in real terms" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 I notice that "package" has moved on from just being used to refer to policies (a "package of measure" rather than "a set of policies"); now any short video shown on a politics programme is referred as "the package". "I noticed it was mentioned in your package ... " "What your package failed to mention .... " "As we saw in your package ... " Shut the f**k up. It's a video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Why is every entirely expected statement by politicians whose job is it to make statements now described as an "intervention"? Osborne, for example, making a speech about the EU's effect on the economy is currently being described as "an intervention". He's the fucking Chancellor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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