What are your worst political speak soundbites?

[barney15c]

I think the one that has been coming up time and time again and makes my blood absolutely boil is:

"Lessons will be learned so this will never happen again"

The stock answer used when mass incompitence is uncovered....

The baby P scandal, Wastage and overspends in government departments, negligence in the NHS...the list goes on.

At then end of the day, this means nothing, as the guilty just try harder to cover it up rather than address the problems.

There are loads of other examples of prettying up unfavorable things by making up new jargon (or b**l*cks). Anyone got any good ones?

[sandyRoe]

"It's only of interest in the Westminster village."
When the MP's expenses scandal started to break I heard that more than once. Probably from someone who had his duck house down as his second home.

[emmie]

We are all in this together, (no we are not)

[sandyRoe]

em10, maybe we are. We're in it up to our necks while the people who say things like that are getting their shoes splashed

[ludwig]

"Heads will roll" - which usually translates as - 'The incompetents will all be given massive payoffs and allowed to retire early in luxury'.

[emmie]

Sandyroe, you are probably right, confess that when i hear some of the crap they come out with would like to say come down to where we live and see how people really live, whilst they sit in their ivory towers.

[Gromit]

"The low growth is due to the Royal Wedding and the unseasonably warm April"


Today's Matt cartoon in the Daily Telegraph...

http://i.telegraph.co...MATT-web_1957310a.gif

[Canary42]

The biggest myth ever :-

"Although unpopular, these measures are necessary to undo the mess the previous Government left behind"

[andy-hughes]

Something that has happened ' ... on my watch ...'.

The first time I heard it was when the then Controller of Radio Two resigned over the Andrew Sachs scandal, and it keeps cropping up.

What's wrong with ' ... while I was in charge ...' which is what it actually means?

[Ankou]

over use of the word 'sustainable' in every soundbite.

[Sqad]

"that lot over there, can't wait to get their snouts in the trough" Dennis Skinner special and frequent comments in the House before the expenses scandal at PM question's time.


He didn't realise it at the time, but the whole house was a "pig's trough"

[sandyRoe]

But he was as pure as the driven snow.

[micmak]

I like Dennis Skinner. I remember him saying something like. "The right Honourable gentleman's a bloody liar"

[argorstran]

"We shall get tough on crime , and tough on the causes of crime ."-heard it countless times over the last decade .
Result - thousands of police redundancies .

[Whickerman]

beat this for frank and open exchange in a parliament:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-xxoQwOo4

[neil42]

When some thing is described in "real terms" gets my back up.

[Nibble]

Not forgetting of course.... at this present point in time..... err now?