Prison officers have been ordered to stop calling criminals 'convicts' on the grounds it is 'offensive'.
Civil servants at the Prison Service headquarters have also instructed warders to drop the phrase 'ex-con' for former prisoners - and refer to them as 'persons with lived experience' or 'prison leavers'.
So, if you haven't been to prison, you haven't lived? Hmmm...
Another prisons source said: 'This is real nanny state stuff. Yet again, do-gooding civil servants are spending their working hours trying to manipulate the English language to fit their personal world view, rather than concentrating on things that really matter.
'While they are sending out diktats about 'persons with lived experience', the jails are full to bursting, prison officers are leaving in droves and crime is at a record high.'
All part of the plan, no doubt!
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay described the Prison Service's latest intervention as 'nonsense'.
Yes, it is. What does Sunak and his cronies plan to do about it?
He added: 'This new agenda that has taken hold right across government departments has to stop. It is not respected by the public. It's just pure nonsense.'
Anything at all? Or does rooting it out get filed in the 'too much like hard work' column?
From now on if a job applicant states that they have "lived experience" they will not be considered. Unless it's a government or police job.
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