Brexit Metaphor No 152
When you take a full suitcase on a flight, it will get buffeted and battered by airport handlers but it will not arrive broken at the carousel belt. This is because the stuff inside a full suitcase structurally supports the rigidity of the frame.
In contrast, when you take an empty suitcase, after a number of flights you are likely to find it broken when you pick it up at the luggage belt. An empty suitcase cannot support the weight of the heavier suitcases that will be stored on top of it in the hold of the plane and during transportation around airports.
Britain's Brexit policy is an empty suitcase. There was never much agreement within the country how to support the frame of the suitcase internally. And when the European Commission put on top of the Brexit suitcase another 27 suitcases, the Brexit suitcase buckled under the weight.
Churchill once said about Clement Atlee: "An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it."
In 2016 David Cameron left behind an empty suitcase as he was leaving Downing Street and Theresa May crawled out of it.
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| Suitcase (Source: Wikipedia) |
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