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Mind your language

There’s something grotesque about the jargon of Universal Credit

26 January 2019

9:00 AM

26 January 2019

9:00 AM

The government (if it hasn’t fallen yet) has found difficulty moving people onto Universal Credit from the benefits that they were receiving before. The process is called managed migration and the government refers to acts of migrating claimants.

This jargon sounds the more grotesque for the associations it provokes in the imagination: of migrants or asylum-seekers being herded into boats or cast into the Channel aboard inflatable craft.

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