Our politicians still haven’t got the message about their use of jargon

Nobody outside of politics talks about policies. It’s an insider term. It makes viewers switch off, writes Terry Prone

COMING up to the 1977 general election, things were a bit ropey in Fianna Fáil. Charlie Haughey had been brought back into the fold as the arms trial scandal faded a bit and was now in charge of the health portfolio, which wasn’t a bad gig, back in the day before the Department of Health became Angola. But many within Fianna Fáil were furious at leader Jack Lynch for bringing him back and felt (rightly) threatened by the appalling vista it opened up.