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@Oliver Schick
I really wish people would stop using 'social cleansing'. It's a terrible, callous euphemism for a very unpleasant thing; nothing's being 'cleansed', perhaps rather dirtied. The odd thing is that the people who might be the ones being 'cleansed' wore this term like a shield on the Kill the Housing Bill march on Sunday. I'm very sensitive to propagandistic expressions like that. It's obviously not a 'buzzword' in the same way that all the bullshit office jargon that usually populates this thread is, but everyone from Jeremy Corbyn to the people under threat from cuts uses it. Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to come up with a better term. :(