As the world gets more complicated, more difficult to manage, what we need from our politicians is more clarity. They need to tell us how it is. As simple as they can. Trouble is, in a democracy, people get to hear what they want to hear. It’s how politicians remain in power. Politicians tend to avoid the simple truth, they prefer spin over clarity.
In politicians there is sometimes a disconnect between what they really think, and what they can say to their public. George Orwell wrote in Politics and the English Language, in 1946,
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.