LGA's TLA's and BS

For yor amusement, here's the list of 200 words that the Local Government Association would like to see 'banned' from its communications in the future. We've added some English translations, feel free to suggest your own.

Across-the-piece - working togather
Actioned - done
Advocate - suggest
Agencies - groups
Ambassador - figurehead
Area based - local
Area focused - local and functioning
Autonomous - independent
Baseline - start
Beacon - good example
Benchmarking - measuring
Best Practice - a good way
Blue sky thinking - thinking
Bottom-Up - asking people for their views
CAAs - TLA
Can do culture - functioning
Capabilities
Capacity
Capacity building
Cascading
Cautiously welcome - unwelcome
Challenge - problem
Champion
Citizen empowerment - democracy
Client - person
Cohesive communities - working together
Cohesiveness - working together
Collaboration - working together
Commissioning - buying
Community engagement - democracy
Compact
Conditionality
Consensual
Contestability
Contextual
Core developments - developments
Core message - message
Core principles - principles
Core values - values
Coterminosity - working together
Coterminous - working together
Cross-cutting - working together
Cross-fertilisation - working together
Customer - person
Democratic legitimacy
Democratic mandate
Dialogue - talking
Direction of travel - direction (unless this is about which way the tram should really run)
Distorts spending priorities - wastes
Double devolution - pizza topping for the indecisive
Downstream
Early Win - success
Edge-fit
Embedded - working
Empowerment
Enabler
Engagement - talking
Engaging users - talking
Enhance - improve
Evidence Base - facts
Exemplar - good example
External challenge - problem
Facilitate - help
Fast-Track - speed up
Flex - change
Flexibilities and Freedoms
Framework - guide
Fulcrum - pivot
Functionality - working
Funding streams - revenue
Gateway review
Going forward - in future
Good practice - good way (though why good practice and best practice both on the list?)
Governance
Guidelines - guide
Holistic - working together
Holistic governance -working together
Horizon scanning - looking
Improvement levers
Incentivising
Income streams - revenue
Indicators
Initiative - idea
Innovative capacity - ideas
Inspectorates
Interdepartmental - working together
Interface - talking
Iteration - version
Joined up - working together
Joint working - working together
LAAs - TLA
Level playing field - fairness
Lever
Leverage
Localities - local areas
Lowlights - bad things
MAAs - TLA
Mainstreaming
Management capacity
Meaningful consultation - talking
Meaningful dialogue - talking
Mechanisms - ways
Menu of Options - choices
Multi-agency - working together
Multidisciplinary - working together
Municipalities
Network model
Normalising
Outcomes - results
Output - result
Outsourced
Overarching
Paradigm
Parameter - limits
Participatory - involving people
Partnership working - working together
Partnerships - working together
Pathfinder - person trying something new
Peer challenge - asking questions
Performance network
Place shaping
Pooled budgets - working together
Pooled resources - working together
Pooled risk - working together
Populace - people
Potentialities - chances
Practitioners - workers
Predictors of Beaconicity - signs we're doing well
Preventative services - stopping bad things happening
Prioritization - choosing the most important things to do first
Priority - the most important things to do first
Proactive
Process driven - bureaucratic
Procure - buy
Procurement - buying
Promulgate - spread
Proportionality - fairness
Protocol - guide
Provider vehicles
Quantum
Quick hit - success
Quick win - success
Rationalisation - cut back
Rebaselining - starting again
Reconfigured - starting again
Resource allocation - budgeting
Revenue Streams - income
Risk based
Robust - working
Scaled-back - cut back
Scoping
Sector wise
Seedbed
Self-aggrandizement
Service users - people
Shared priority - working together
Shell developments
Signpost
Single conversations
Single point of contact
Situational
Slippage - delay
Social contracts
Social exclusion
Spatial
Stakeholder - person affected
Step change - big change
Strategic - planned
Strategic priorities - planned
Streamlined - cut back
Sub-regional - very local
Subsidiarity
Sustainable
Sustainable communities
Symposium ­­
Synergies
Systematics
Taxonomy
Tested for Soundness - working
Thematic
Thinking outside of the box - thinking
Third sector
Toolkit
Top-down
Trajectory
Tranche - piece
Transactional
Transformational - changing
Transparency - easy to understand
Upstream
Upward trend - improving
Utilise - use
Value-added - better
Vision ­- idea
Visionary - idea
Welcome
Wellbeing
Worklessness - unemployent

There's an awful lot of phrases and words on the list which translate as 'working together'. Why is that?