‘Australia deal’ or ‘no deal’? It’s all semantics, says Sharma
Alok Sharma: I’ve cartoonised the pic of him so he doesn’t look too contagious. The alternative would have been an image of a pilchard.
Alok Sharma – what a gift to satire.
Today (October 19) he was on the radio, gifting us with his interpretation of the kind of Brexit trade deal Boris Johnson is likely to hand British businesses:
No deal. But he tried to dress it up by calling it an “Australia-style” deal.
How did he think he’d get away with it?
Nick Ferrari on LBC made him look the fool he is:
Alok Sharma says the PM "has been very clear" that the UK is preparing to leave on Australia-style terms.
Nick Ferrari: what's the difference between an Australia deal and No Deal?
Sharma: "It's a question of semantics at the end of the day."#CallTheCabinet | @NickFerrariLBC pic.twitter.com/Pc2m81MKNq
— LBC (@LBC) October 19, 2020
“It’s a question of semantics”!
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, semantics is the branch of language and logic concerned with meaning; Sharma was admitting that an “Australia-type” deal and “no deal” are the same.
He was just – desperately – trying to dress it up to pretend that it wasn’t; a last-ditch bid to fool the less attentive or less well-read among the radio audience.
I don’t think it worked:
https://twitter.com/JackDunc1/status/1318111480554967040
Now Alok Sharma has confirmed the difference between a disastrous No Deal Brexit and the so-called Australian Deal is mere semantics (they mean exactly the same thing) we might as well start referring to it by the names of other mythical things such as 'Boris Johnson's integrity'
— J Calvert (@oddballwoofwoof) October 19, 2020
Challenge of the day: find Alok Sharma, or your local MP and get them to directly explain an “Australian style Deal”.
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) October 19, 2020
Alok Sharma says the PM "has been very clear"
REALLY???
When was that then?— sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS #GeneralElectionNow (@SueSuezep) October 19, 2020
Just heard a clip of Alok Sharma being told by Nick Ferrari that Australia is the same as No Deal, Sharma was momentarily lost for words then waffled something about semantics. This is why the media need to challenge this b*llocks every time.#BrexitReality
— Lady Madame Claire Savage (@csav55) October 19, 2020
@LBC Alok Sharma floundering, blustering, blundering and completely flummoxed by a Brexit deal question. He hasn't got a clue, may as well ask a pilchard
— sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS #GeneralElectionNow (@SueSuezep) October 19, 2020
You’d probably get a better answer from a pilchard.
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