Are You Offended By ‘Hard-Working Families’?

[Khandro]

'Scarcely a day passes without a newspaper story about some absurd ‘language guide’ issued by a public body. This week the Daily Mail reported that Wokingham Borough Council had told its staff not to use the phrase ‘hard-working families’ in case it offended the unemployed. Other verboten words included ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitewash’, and staff were warned that ‘sustained eye contact could be considered aggressive’ in some cultures. I don’t think they meant supporters of Millwall football club, but you never know.

Not to be outdone, Cardiff University has told its students to avoid using ‘British-English’ phrases such as ‘kill two birds with one stone’, ‘break a leg’ and ‘a piece of cake’ because they won’t be understood by people who didn’t grow up speaking English. Couldn’t you make the same argument for removing all the Welsh road signs in Cardiff? After all, less than 30 per cent of Welsh people actually understand the language, so that’s a majority of the indigenous population who stare at them in bafflement.......'

Toby Young. No sacred Cows. The Spectator.

[Spungle]

This is why we need an Elon Musk in this country to clear out the absolute rubbish who are employed at the taxpayer's expense.  What a load of horlicks this is.