Council leader aims to ban jargon

Author: Daily Telegraph   |  

David Lee, the leader of Wokingham borough council in Berkshire, is on a mission to stop the use of gobbledegook.

He wants to rid councils of wordy and baffling language to make life simpler.

He has come up with a list of words which he hates, including worklessness, network model and paradigm.

Councillor Lee said “It’s going to take a while to get rid of this type of rubbish but I’m on the case and our council has already made a step in the right direction by simplifying the reports which are written for the executive’s consideration.”

He wants residents to alert him if they get “anything incomprehensible from the council in the future”.

He added “Plain English should be the law in all walks of life. Too often people talk in acronyms and complicated language just to add an air of secrecy to what they do in a bid to make people like me go away and not bother them.”

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