Its all in Orwell's book 1984, you just destroy the meaning of language and then everything means what you say it means.
On the ballot paper were two simple everyday well understood words Leave or Remain. As soon as the result became clear the Remainers immediately invented a new word Brexit which had a harsher sound to the general public and was immediately taken up by the media.
Then more confusion by adding the adjectives soft or hard to the Brexit word.These terms were vague and undefined so could be bent to mean what ever politicians chose it to mean and Joe Public had no idea what the phrases meant but they sounded good to use in an emotive way after all who wants to be called hard?
Things given huge media coverage snowballed from there and rather than leaving on WTO terms the term crashing out became the political media term of choice to describe, with its frightening car crash connotations, leaving on WTO terms and ideal for scaremongering politicians who invented it for that purpose.
Even the thickest could master it.I listened to 2E grade Corbyn being interviewed post May's latest non-speech tonight following her 7 hour cabinet meeting. He used the phrase crashing out around twenty times to ensure all us thickos got the message. That's what political debate has now become.
3 comments:
I agree with you on the use of words but whatever words are used are politicians are guilty of NOT understanding the frist thing about how to leave the EU without causing completely unnecessary economic damage.
Anyone who doesn't realise, that after 45 years of integration into the EU, leaving had to be a PROCESS is a complete and utter fool.
I also think that the problem was some leave politicians thinking that if leave win that is it. When obviously remain politicians would want to keep us de facto in, even if we left in name.
I agree Mr Fairfax
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