I stumbled across the following blog post, and while I rarely agree with The Telegraph's view on the world (rather to conservative/establishment-friendly for my taste), this "Telegraph blog post" makes a very interesting point/parallel:
Call me old-fashioned but should the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition in the run-up to an election (or at any other time for that matter) say that people are “gagging for change”? As we all know only too well, Dave has had the advantage of one of the finest educations money can buy. Is it too much to expect that somewhere along the way he may have acquired a vocabulary that would allow him to make a trenchant political point without reaching into the demotic depths?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidhughes/100032397/demotic-dave-cameron-should-mind-his-language-and-remember-kinnock/
I like his usage of the term demotic - 100% correct but a very old fashioned formal term for Street Language.
I think politician should avoid try to be cool or expressing too much emotion, they will need to stay calm and focused under intense pressure, winning the general election is only the beginning not the finish line!
demoticadjectiveKnox picked up her demotic style of writing when she worked for a newspaper in Madison popular, vernacular, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar, common;informal, everyday, slangy. antonym formal.
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