MLA Malapropisms
A colleague of mine who listens intently to Stormont proceedings has been compiling an end of term list of Assembly jargon. It's hard to keep track of the number of times we've heard about "holistic approaches", "executive synergies" and "cross cutting issues". But some of the best recent language included a contribution from Edwin Poots on 25th February, assuring his audience that what he was telling them was not "some cock and boom story", and another on June 1st asking members to "think outside the box rather than making a kneejerk reaction".
Basil McCrea's tongue also ran away with him on May 11th when he assured his audience that "this is not a time for gazel naving".
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