“If civil servants don’t talk like the rest of the people in this country, then they are in danger of having a ‘goldfish bowl facilitated conversation’ that no one much cares about,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.
Commenting on the LGA’s annual list of words that public sector workers shouldn’t use, Julia Goldsworthy said:
“It is essential that the public knows what officials are up to and it’s not enough just to publish what councils spend on the web.
“The decision-making process needs to be easy to understand, instead of hidden behind baffling ‘Labour speak’.
“If civil servants don’t talk like the rest of the people in this country, then they are in danger of having a ‘goldfish bowl facilitated conversation’ that no one much cares about.”
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