THE 2015 MUST HAVE: A POLITICAL JARGON REMOVAL TOOL
With 170 days to go until the General Election the brilliant Polifiller.com website has updated its online political jargon removal tool, adding several hundred more annoying and empty phrases from politicians’ speeches submitted by correspondents, editors, and others.
Polifiller is a new online tool designed to cut the drivel and clichés out of political speeches.
Simply cut and paste a speech or statement into the box on the site and its ‘ground-breaking technology’ [aka, two bits of coconut connected by a string] will put a line through the worst clichés and emptiest lines.
Here are Polifiller’s most frequent offenders…
- “Bottom up”
- "The doorstep"
- "Hard-working" families
- “Metropolitan elite”
- “Real people”
- “Top down”
- “The Westminster bubble”
- “The fact of the matter is”
- “It's going to take time”
- “A whole range of proposals”
- “There are no easy answers”
- "Comprehensive raft of measures”
- “The previous administration”
- “Let me at this stage be absolutely open and honest”
- “Our message is clear”
- “The Great British people”
If there are any phrases that you’d like us to add to the database please tell Polifiller.com
Scot-Buzz would like to thank Hamish Thompson [[email protected]] for this public service…
High tech rural business service launched
Scotland’s first CREATE: Lab (www.create-nwe.eu ), a new project to strengthen and grow the Scottish rural economy, has been opened by Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP. The event was hosted by STEP, Stirling’s business support organisation.
The event highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as being one of the key barriers to growth experienced businesses across rural Scotland. The new CREATE: Lab facility will provide rural enterprises access to production technology including 3D printers, scanners and laser cutters as well as the latest online tools.
Said Gordon Bell, chief executive at STEP, “We are delighted to be involved in this exciting new project. The technology has been selected based on our experience of working with rural businesses and provides businesses across the country the opportunity to exploit new technology solutions which they may otherwise have not been aware of or able to fund.”
Mairi Henderson, CREATE Project Manager for Scotland commented, “The lab is a fantastic resource for rural businesses looking to maximise potential to innovate and improve business products, processes and productivity as well as use online tools to grow new markets and supply chain partnerships and trade globally. We are looking forward to working in partnership with STEP”
Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said: “The CREATE project will help rural businesses secure the potential benefits that the Scottish Government’s investment in rural broadband can bring.”
