While we’re on about politicians, George Monbiot had another side-swipe on Tuesday 21 October in his Guardian column: ‘Cleansing the stock’ and other ways governments talk about human beings.
Basically he’s on about the euphemisms that politicians, governments, and indeed companies, use to disguise — from themselves and (they think) us — the horrors of what they get up to. For example:

The [Dept of Work & Pensions can talk of] using “credit reference agency data to cleanse the stock of fraud and error”

Hills, forests and rivers are described … as “green infrastructure”

Wildlife and habitats are “asset classes” in an “ecosystems market”.

Israeli military commanders described the massacre of 2,100 Palestinians … in Gaza this summer as “mowing the lawn”.

People, aka. human beings, can be referred to as “personnel targets”. And then there are the old favourites: “neutralising”, collateral damage” and “extraordinary rendition”.
Dictatorships, and those wishing to conceal what they’re up to have always spoken thus: for example look at Communist Russia and Communist China.
Gawdelpus!