Labor Party criticized for dropping verb

The Plain English Campaign in Britain is taking exception to a new slogan of the U.K.'s Labor party because it's missing a verb.

The new election slogan, "Britain forward, not back," which the party's head, Alan Milburn, said symbolized the choice before the British people -- "forward not back," is being criticized began the verb is missing, reported the Daily Telegraph Saturday.

"The verb seems to have been abolished by Labor," said John Lister, of the Plain English Campaign. "It sounds like a grammatical nicety but it means you can put across a message with no specific action in it so you can't be tied down to anything."

Lister recommended that the slogan should say "forwards not backwards" for the sake of linguistic consistency.

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