Ham-fisted LGA

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Here's the full list. I think there's a few that can and must stay. I've emboldened them.

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Across-the-piece

Actioned

Advocate

Agencies

Ambassador

Area based

Area focused

Autonomous

Baseline

Beacon

Benchmarking

Best Practice

Blue sky thinking

Bottom-Up

CAAs

Can do culture

Capabilities

Capacity

Capacity building

Cascading

Cautiously welcome

Challenge

Champion

Citizen empowerment

Client

Cohesive communities

Cohesiveness

Collaboration

Commissioning

Community engagement

Compact

Conditionality

Consensual

Contestability

Contextual

Core developments

Core Message

Core principles

Core Value

Coterminosity

Coterminous

Cross-cutting

Cross-fertilisation

Customer

Democratic legitimacy

Democratic mandate

Dialogue

Direction of travel

Distorts spending priorities

Double devolution

Downstream

Early Win

Edge-fit

Embedded

Empowerment

Enabler

Engagement

Engaging users

Enhance

Evidence Base

Exemplar

External challenge

Facilitate

Fast-Track

Flex

Flexibilities and Freedoms

Framework

Fulcrum

Functionality

Funding streams

Gateway review

Going forward

Good practice

Governance

Guidelines

Holistic

Holistic governance

Horizon scanning

Improvement levers

Incentivising

Income streams

Indicators

Initiative

Innovative capacity

Inspectorates

Interdepartmental

Interface

Iteration

Joined up

Joint working

LAAs

Level playing field

Lever

Leverage

Localities

Lowlights

MAAs

Mainstreaming

Management capacity

Meaningful consultation

Meaningful dialogue

Mechanisms

Menu of Options

Multi-agency

Multidisciplinary

Municipalities

Network model

Normalising

Outcomes

Outcomes

Output

Outsourced

Overarching

Paradigm

Parameter

Participatory

Partnership working

Partnerships

Pathfinder

Peer challenge

Performance Network

Place shaping

Pooled budgets

Pooled resources

Pooled risk

Populace

Potentialities

Practitioners

Predictors of Beaconicity

Preventative services

Prioritization

Priority

Proactive

Process driven

Procure

Procurement

Promulgate

Proportionality

Protocol

Provider vehicles

Quantum

Quick hit

Quick win

Rationalisation

Rebaselining

Reconfigured

Resource allocation

Revenue Streams

Risk based

Robust

Scaled-back

Scoping

Sector wise

Seedbed

Self-aggrandizement

Service users

Shared priority

Shell developments

Signpost

Single conversations

Single point of contact

Situational

Slippage

Social contracts

Social exclusion

Spatial

Stakeholder

Step change

Strategic

Strategic priorities

Streamlined

Sub-regional

Subsidiarity

Sustainable

Sustainable communities

Symposium

Synergies

Systematics

Taxonomy

Tested for Soundness

Thematic

Thinking outside of the box

Third sector

Toolkit

Top-down

Trajectory

Tranche

Transactional

Transformational

Transparency

Upstream

Upward trend

Utilise

Value-added

Vision

Visionary

Welcome

Wellbeing

Worklessness

There's nothing wrong with looking at things holistically if that's not what you've been doing already. I think in these lists you've got words which cunts made up in order to control others by forcing language (without meaning) onto people. I'm with Orwell on this one. Equally there is a similar and more terrible problem, where the ignorant have managed to get anything they are too lazy to learn on the same lists.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:47

Sorry, what?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

GovernmentYard wrote:

There's nothing wrong with looking at things holistically

I don't see what religion has to do with this.

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:51

myp wrote:

Sorry, what?

This

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:52

GovernmentYard wrote:

I'm with Orwell on this one. Equally there is a similar and more terrible problem, where the ignorant have managed to get anything they are too lazy to learn on the same lists.

The Orwell you're after is his excellent essay 'Politics and the English Language'

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Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.

< http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html >

Hmm...they left out 'impact on'. Grrr...

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

"Sustainable"? "Procure"? Seriously?

"Spatial" I would also be outraged about, but on the other hand what the nibbling chuff would a council be needing it for?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

There's a lot of words in there mixed up with the nonsense that are actually sensible words for what they describe. Client? Strategic? Partnerships? Output?

Customer, ffs? Does Azda have to have clientele, now?

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

The police refer to you as a customer whether you're the offender or the victim. It's totally offensive and I think that (like with client) government bodies should not be bloody using those terms about me. Stop trying to run my taxpayer services like businesses you twats.

That's why I wonder about spatial; brilliant words, but probably completely abused by local governments.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Which is fine. Putting those in a list of banned words when you also run services that sell things to *tada* customers is silly, though. It could just be bad reporting, but don't ban the word customer, just stop people who are using it wrong to change.

In agreement though, running councils like businesses is a massive, massive issue. The one major overhead to running a small business in a London Borough in particular is the council rents. This year, when small businesses are failing left right and centre, not a single borough hasn't raised rents. It should be fucking cheap to rent a shop in a high street, because YOU WANT SHOPS THERE, MORONS.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 13:16

Good post goatboy.

The problem was: government authorities playing at being bizness twonks.

Rather than saying "you aren't bizness twonks, cut it out", they seem to have gone in for adding more rules and word banning lists. Great.

I guarantee you the response to this (from the people affected) will be hideously infantile over-simplified language instead.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3304

BikNorton wrote:

Stop trying to run my taxpayer services like businesses you twats.

That's exactly it, isn't it? I don't have the source any more but one of the most staggering - both in its implications but also just how incredibly obvious it is once you look - revelations on my masters course was that the language of business is now all-pervading, whether you look at local councils or the UN. Nothing wrong with the words in themselves, out of context they're fine but in using the words these bodies are also applying the 'paradigm' of business and that rather gets away from them being a service. But then I hear so many people expressing the sentiment that "I pay my taxes" as if they're in some kind of savings scheme rather than any sort of community or, heaven forfend, a society, that I've given up trying to remind them what tax is for.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 15:56

JBR wrote:

whether you look at local councils

I deal with local councils and their planning documents a fair deal, and not only will nobody ever read them, they're always written in half-twaddle, half-pigeon. It's as if someone has used a custom thesaurus to replace almost every word without understanding what they're doing.

Full-sized aortic pumps.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11897

My girlfriend writes planning documents for a company and passes them to the council for publication and language checks. The stuff that comes back is horrendous.

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