Sunday, 21 July 2019

Another "Crash Out" Hyperbole



England Crash Out (of netball World Cup) reads a headline in the The Times Sport section today.  In current parlance, “crash out” has been adopted by those opposing “no-deal” to suggest a tsunami of catastrophic consequences of UK that will visit the UK should we actually fulfil the mandate of the referendum and leave the EU when we said we will.  Naturally I was concerned for the future welfare of the persons comprising the England women’s netball team and wondered what terrible fate awaited them.  Surely, they should be relelgated to at least the third division and never compete on the world stage again for such would be the irredeemable consequences for sport in general and netball in particular.  So, I read on.  The team were “gutted” but certainly did not sound down and out.  They praised the opposition for being “clinical” in their shooting which seems to have parallels with our negotiation surrender over the last three years.  However, the captain noted that, despite the defeat, life must go on and that it was pointless to sit back and wonder what if?  Quite so.  Let us in the UK get out of the EU on 31 October, put the debacle of the last three years behind us and show that we are determined to make a success of our future, like the England netball team?

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