what would woodie guthrie have said?

Britain wasn't working in the late 1970s.

Now the people in Mr Saatchi's famous poster would be described as, and I kid you not, "workless".

Yes, according to my copy of a new growth strategy - which should provide years of material for this blog - worklessness is the new unemployment.

Unemployment, not having a job, being on the dole, has been rebranded into something softer and cuddlier. About time too.

I have to stop writing now, I'm suffering from timelessness and I've got to make the supper or we'll all get foodlessness. And then its bedtime or we'll have sleeplessness.

I could go on...but I won't.

Does anyone know what these people are talking about?


Will

touchdown for jargon

Remember Scarborough Borough Council's use of the word "corporateness"? If not, see post - it is a corporate world.

Now pesky Newcastle City Council has been at it.

Private Eye tells me that Kenton's new customer service centre - yes, council tax payers are still customers - features something called a "corporate touchdown space".

The local ward councillor asked what on earth that might mean and was told that it was in fact an...office.

Who dreams this stuff up? Does anyone know what these people are talking about? And why are we paying their wages?

Remember keep it simple.

Will