The Lefty Lexicon - Republished

Inigo Wilson, an employee at "Orange" a Mobile Phone company in England has been fired for posting the following from "The Lefty Lexicon" on a private internet site, not while he was working or anything like that. Has it come to the point where even humor can be a cause for termination? Oh, wait, Isn't that what happened with the Mohammad Cartoons? So, since I really, really hate PC and any that promulgate it here is the "Lefty Lexicon" in it's entirety. Take that Orange.

A

Agenda - describes any collection of policies: 'equality agenda' for instance. Invariably needs to be ‘taken forward’.

Aggressive outreach - the process of actively soliciting trade for social workers. Generally employed when 'customers' fail to show required enthusiasm for services on offer.

B

Beacon of excellence - archaism: any organ of state that achieved - or 'delivered' - what it was supposed to.

Best practice - normally 'established' when a Lefty wants to saddle a process with more complexity. Replaces 'working it out yourself'.

C

Child-centred - education: "we can't be bothered to teach them… perhaps they’ll do it themselves".

Clarify - as in to clarify one's position. Totally repudiate what you said before. In other words, change the position of the government on an issue after they have been rumbled.

Class - grouping people by the contents of their wallet rather than, say, how they think, feel or behave as individuals.

Consultation - a formal system for ignoring public views while patronising them at the same time. London's Congestion Charge for instance.

Community leader - someone plucked from obscurity to represent ‘the views of the community’ for the purposes of ‘consultation’. NB never elected to this position.

Critique - media, academia: same as 'rebuttal'. When a Lefty alleges that someone's writing is 'riddled with factual inaccuracies' then mysteriously fails to identify any.

D

Delivery - as in "delivered against targets". Means 'achieve'.

Disproportionate - foreign affairs: Describes any act by USA or Israel.

Delegitimise - what we do if we suggest that a favoured Lefty client group may contain members who are not wholly beyond criticism as individuals.

Diversity - creating a workforce based on how people look rather than on their skills or aptitude

E

Equal - as in ‘opportunities’: describes the desire to have a workforce resemble the population it comes from, rather than matched to the task in hand. See 'diversity'.

Egalitarian - “if I can’t have one, then neither can you�. Shared misery much better than unevenly scattered joy.

European Union - fount of wisdom and all that is good in Europe except for occasional lapses into support for 'Free Trade' (q.v.)

Evidence based - backing policy decisions with selective social science research.

Extremist - Someone who holds non-lefty views

F

Fascism/Nazism - apparently the 'opposite' of Socialism - despite sharing party members, ideology and - in National Socialism - the name.

Free Trade - Exploitation of the poor and downtrodden by evil capitalists, leading to unemployment at home and sweatshops abroad. Nothing whatever to do with how we get computers, iPods, shoes etc.

G

Gender issues - grouping people by their sex rather than how they think, feel or behave as individuals.

‘Green’ issues - “if we can’t control the means of production then we’ll close it down�. NB. the US is the ‘biggest polluter in the world’ which is wholly unrelated to the fact it’s the world’s most productive economy.

H

Hate-crime - same as 'normal' crime as far as victims are concerned - but much more distressing for Lefties.

Hate-speech - "shut up!".

Homophobe - any Christian who thinks that the Homosexual lifestyle is somehow wrong. Note: Muslims are never Homophobes

Human rights - using the legal system to pursue political ends.

Humour - as in "sense of": something that most lefties have surgically removed and replaced with a bile generator

I

Impartial - media, BBC: the balance achieved by attacking the Opposition for being Conservative and attacking the Government for being insufficiently Lefty.

Inclusive - Means 'drop entry standards until anyone can get in'.

Investment - Throwing increasing amounts of (our tax) money at any problem that has attracted media attention, without having the slightest idea of what the outcome will be. Usually involves paying consultants enormous sums for very little result.

In partnership with… - Government: "this way, none of us get the blame when nothing happens!".

Inappropriate - "I don't like this" - no explanation for what or whom must ever be given.

Intolerance - Intolerance can only committed against certain defined groups of people. These do not include, Americans, the middle class, white manual workers, rural people, business and Christians obviously. Essentially what extremists (q.v.) show when criticising anyone lefty/progressive

Institutional racism - 'racism' in a workforce that is achieved unknowingly and in ways that cannot be specifically defined.

Islamophobic - anyone who objects to having their transport blown up on the way to work.

Israel - see 'disproportionate' and 'legitimate grievances'. Country the size of Wales, with 5m inhabitants, that is entirely responsible for any and all delinquent Islamist behaviour the world over.

Issues around… - "I may be out of my depth here".

J

Joined-up - givernment policies, targets or activities: un-coordinated, inconsistent, determined by HM Treasury.

Justice - Government: as in ‘social justice’. Means taking money earned by the general public to give to particular groups that Lefties approve of. Replaces market economics.

K

Key - Government: most things are ‘key’, in particular ‘drivers’, ‘learnings’, ‘deliverables’. In education, all school ‘stages’ are 'key'.

L

Legitimate grievances - foreign affairs: why we're all to blame for deranged Islamists murdering people in the developed world.

Liaise - the day-to-day process of Lefty Government. Replaces 'work'.

Learnings - means 'lessons'.

M

Marx - a Victorian gentleman whose theories cannot be disproved by observation, experience or factual evidence. See 'religion' and 'post-modernism'.

Militant - media, BBC: Murderer or would be murderer with 'legitimate grievances' (qv), usually from the Middle East and usually Moslem

Multi-cultural - All culture is valid - unless Western in some way. Usually to be 'celebrated' and always found to be 'vibrant'. See 'diversity'.

N

Nazi - informal: describes non-Lefty views and useful to link with people Lefties don’t like. Thus Germany’s Nazi period is the only noteworthy formative experience of Pope Benedict.

NGO - Non Governmental Organisation – the repository of all moral authority in Lefty World and whose words and motives may never be questioned.

O

Organised labour - what Lefties used to be interested in.

P

Palestinians - archetype 'victims' no matter how many teenagers they murder in bars and fast food outlets. Never responsible for anything they do – or done in their name - because of 'root causes' or ‘legitimate grievances’.

Post-modern - modern French 'philosophical': literature claiming that no account of events can be trusted. 'Texts' must be 'deconstructed' for their hidden meanings - except those by post-modernists, to be taken at face value.

Precautionary Principle - allows unnecessary actions which lack “evidence based� backing.

Progressive - describes ideas generally thought up around 40 years ago – that still don't work.

Q

al Qaeda - Muslim 'militants' who for some reason or other continue to kill far more Muslims than people of any other faith.

R

Race issues - grouping people by their skin colour as opposed to how they think, feel or behave as individuals.

Racist - means "shut up!" - and is much, much worse than being violent, thoughtless or unkind. In fact, easily the worst crime ever conceived of.

Relevant - education: something badly written, with references to sex and full of swear-words. Always better than literature by 'dead white people'.

Religion -

Christianity: irrational, dangerous belief that material things may not be the principal motive behind human behaviour.
Judaism: most Israelis are Jewish, so probably 'intolerant'.
Islam: always needs to be 'understood'.
Risk-based - either an excuse not to do something or to take excessive action.

Root causes - foreign affairs: Usually need to be 'examined'. Belief in 'root causes' reflects dogged Lefty habit of trying to see contemporary religious issues through the prism of ‘class analysis’.

S

Skills-based - education: "teach the little ba**ards Microsoft Word or something. They don't actually need to know anything…".

Social exclusion - where bad people, behaving badly, somehow became our fault.

South Africa - a national showcase for Lefty policies with a one-party state, some of the worst crime levels in the world, tragic AIDS mortality and declining economy.

Stakeholders - non-elected people or groups invited to vote on matters in which they have a personal and/or prejudicial interest; formerly known as vested interests and excluded from decision making.

Stereotype - any attempt to describe the general characteristics of a group favoured by Lefties.

Stigmatise - what we do to anti-social people if we ask them to stop.

Subsidised art - art no one would buy.

Sustainability - Government: relates to any actions (or non-actions) that have no relevance to a department’s original purpose.

T

Take forward - use instead of 'do'.

Target - randomly selected topic, date and percentage, the more precise but meaningless the better. For example "people will be 37.36% nicer to each other at rural bus-stops by October 25th, 2014"

Terrorist - no such thing. Only people suffering from ‘root causes’ and ‘legitimate grievances’, see 'militant'.

Totalitarian - The current Bush presidency of the USA

Transgressive - term of approval for anything 'challenging established values' - but generally puerile, annoying and dumb.

U

Unilateral - media, BBC: used to describe any act by the United States in furtherance of its national interest.

United Nations - the NGO of NGOs. All foreign policy has to be 'in partnership with the UN and our European Allies', unless bombing Serbia - which requires neither.

V

Victim - see ‘Terrorist’, ‘Palestinians’, ‘gender issues’, ‘race issues’ and ‘social exclusion’.

W

Workers - notional ‘class’ of people that Lefties once claimed to represent. Now replaced by college lecturers, human rights lawyers, pressure group employees, civil servants with 'liaise' in their job title - and other people you would probably not want over for supper.

Y

Youth Programmes - something, anything, that will keep feral illiterates from signing on the dole. (At a per capita cost of approx 30x the dole). Often skills-based (qv)

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