Less Ordinary

I am irritated by (mostly) politicians and (also) media-types referring to "ordinary people". I don't mind being a regular, normal, ordinary chap, but when they wield it, the phrase comes with the patronising implication that they are somehow better than ordinary. And as we have seen for a long time and especially in recent years, many politicians in particular and journalists in general tend to range from 'ordinary' downwards. I log occurrences here and send offenders a postcard.

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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

A bumper crop

No slacking with the election over, three spots in an hour:

Andrew Neil saving himself from a postcard on a recording of today's Daily Politics
Norman Smith (BBC) twice on PM
Simon Walker (DG IoD) three times on Drive

#33 Norman Smith on PM

On BBC R4 PM, Norman Smith assistant political editor describing Cameron's opening remarks to the first cabinet meeting following the election, "... the Prime Minister setting out what he hoped will be his core message which, as we heard, is trying to say the the Conservatives are now the party of working people and their mantra is blue collar Conservatism ... all political parties by-and-large say they are on the side of ordinary people. Mrs Thatcher was the original housewife battling for the ordinary family and Gordon Brown and Tony Blair were invariably talking about hard-working families ... it's what politicians do, they talk about standing up for ordinary people ... it's a bit trite".
16 mins in.

Image from the BBC