Coalition or Conservative-led?

[tobyaw]

Labour’s new spin doctor, Tom Baldwin, has asked media organisations to refer to the Westminster government as “Conservative-led”, rather than “coalition”.

[Poll #1669374]

Comments

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

I think it _is_ a perjorative. Not necessarily unfair, but just saying ;)

How we phrase things is always an indication of what we really mean. Hence why I've not bothered on voting on how we should refer to the current Government.

[tobyaw]

Was amused that last month’s Guardian news story about the appointment of Baldwin to Miliband’s team called him Labour’s “principal media strategist”, and didn’t use the phrase “spin doctor” in the article.

It was there in the URL, though:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/13/tom-baldwin-ed-miliband-spin-doctor