Westminster Scandal: Porterspeak
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(or what Dame Shirley really meant to say)
Building stable communities - creating Tory strongholds
Designated sales - selling council homes to Tory voters
Gentrification - increasing middle-class (Tory) vote
Battlezone wards - marginal wards to be turned into Tory bastions
Key wards - another way of saying battlezone wards
More electors - more Tory voters
More residents - fewer homeless, more Tory voters
New residents - Tory voters
Keep on dodging - avoid explaining policy to the Opposition
Political awareness - educating council officers to think her way
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