From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   'So why are our rulers and administrators resorting to this verbal   
   equivalent of an artillery smoke barrage? The answer can be separated into   
   the influences and motives that permeate New Labour.   
      
   The influences are largely consultants, academia and the 'rights industry'.   
   Consultants infest modern government departments and quangos in large   
   numbers and they use the same opaque, almost self-parodic jargon that they   
   inflict on us in the private sector. Working for a quango a few years ago, I   
   noticed that, perhaps due to a lack of confidence, state employees often   
   tried to mimic 'consultantese', despite their understandably hesitant grasp   
   of its original meaning.   
      
   There is also little doubt that academia has influenced - via the   
   cod-philosophy of 'post-modernism' - the thought habits of many of the   
   graduates exposed to this nonsense at university. Thus New Labour pioneered   
   the view that the electorate can be persuaded by 'narratives' rather than,   
   say, doing anything. Disappointingly, they so far seem to have been proved   
   right.   
      
   Finally, there is the language of race and rights activists, part of the   
   rainbow coalition of charities, pressure groups and human-rights lawyers.   
   Between them, these contributors have built a whole new linguistic system to   
   communicate with each other - and us.'   
      
   http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2006/08/inigo_wilson_a_.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)