The linguistic and lexicogaphical boffins at Oxford and Cambridge have agreed that the term democracy needs to be scrapped and replaced with something more appropriate.
“We realised that the pattern of how things go is pretty consistent: support Cameron because he’s not Farage, support May because she’s not Boris, support Hilary because she’s not Trump,” explained Dr Suzuki Dent, from the Oxford English Dictionary,”It’s essentially a question of which of the fucking awful choices that we have is least likely to lead to utter destruction, melted children and armageddon.”
The new word is to be written ‘betterthedevilyaknowocracy’ and its usage is set to start immediately with dictionaries being recalled and media being given new guidelines today.
“It’s a bit of mouthful,” admitted Cambridge English Dictionary spokesperson Count Downe, “but hopefully that will lead to politicians having less time in their speeches to say abhorrent, untruthful crap.”
A spokesman from the People’s Betterthedevilyaknowocratic Republic of China called the move “…fricking ridiculous!”
