James Gatehouse has an entertaining FSB piece on the lack of nourishment in UK political word salads. Entertaining, but also an aspect of wilful idiocy as in the previous post.
Word Salad and Politics
I’m no great fan of salad, although from time to time you do experience a good one. Anything with celery in it is a no-no as far as I’m concerned, so anything Waldorf-ian is definitely out. People who make tasty salads are in short supply, I guess.
Poor salad recipes are nevertheless much the fashion these days. Take these modern culinary classics as examples. [a Labour government will] kick-start economic growth...make Britain a clean energy superpower...take back our streets...break down barriers to opportunity...build an NHS fit for the future.
Like the limp lettuce infesting some supermarket sandwich packs these appear to have lost any of the savour that a proper chef might have brought to them. These are poor salads designed to sound good on the label, but lack any power to evoke a sense of satisfaction once eaten. For one thing, all of these word salads are at best meaningless without added context. What does it mean. Precisely. to “kick start” an economy, or for that matter to make it “grow”? Was it stopped and has it been kickstarted by now? Is energy dirty? And in what way precisely does it make me or anyone else mucky?
I’m no great fan of salad, although from time to time you do experience a good one. Anything with celery in it is a no-no as far as I’m concerned, so anything Waldorf-ian is definitely out. People who make tasty salads are in short supply, I guess.
Poor salad recipes are nevertheless much the fashion these days. Take these modern culinary classics as examples. [a Labour government will] kick-start economic growth...make Britain a clean energy superpower...take back our streets...break down barriers to opportunity...build an NHS fit for the future.
Like the limp lettuce infesting some supermarket sandwich packs these appear to have lost any of the savour that a proper chef might have brought to them. These are poor salads designed to sound good on the label, but lack any power to evoke a sense of satisfaction once eaten. For one thing, all of these word salads are at best meaningless without added context. What does it mean. Precisely. to “kick start” an economy, or for that matter to make it “grow”? Was it stopped and has it been kickstarted by now? Is energy dirty? And in what way precisely does it make me or anyone else mucky?
Well worth reading, as word salads are all the UK political menu has to offer. They are hideously expensive and indigestible salads too, but Rachel Reeves seems to think they are still too cheap.
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