Brexit day, March 29, 2019, is scheduled to take place 161 days away. To mark this unfortunate and sad occasion, I am launching on the day of the London anti-Brexit rally (Oct 20) this Brexit Metaphors blog: an "Adventskalender" of sorts, if you'll pardon the German term.
This blog is a metaphorical countdown to the UK's "harakiri" moment, if you'll pardon the Japanese term. It has been more than two years ago since Britain decided to put an end to its "Dolce Vita" in Europe, if you'll pardon the Italian term. The humiliation is ongoing but in contrast with the humiliation of losing a war that the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians experienced at the end of World War Two, Britain's self-destruction is happening in peace time.
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This blog is a metaphorical countdown to the UK's "harakiri" moment, if you'll pardon the Japanese term. It has been more than two years ago since Britain decided to put an end to its "Dolce Vita" in Europe, if you'll pardon the Italian term. The humiliation is ongoing but in contrast with the humiliation of losing a war that the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians experienced at the end of World War Two, Britain's self-destruction is happening in peace time.
I dedicate this blog in particular to Boris Johnson, who has produced a number of Sunday metaphors to conveniently feather his political nest, for himself and for his birds-of-a-feather. The Brexit leaders are no Hitler or Mussolini but many of them have been exposed as remarkably self-serving, politically-ambitious ego-maniacs (some relevant animal metaphors may come later). Unfortunately for Boris, feathering a political nest with Irish shamrock, Scottish thistle, German steel and French leaves* is proving difficult. This blog aims to help turn Boris's "have your cake and eat it" into "a rock and a hard place".
I will be posting a new Brexit metaphor every day for the next 161 days. I hope you will see a glimmer of reason and logic in these metaphors and, maybe, a glimmer of hope.
*French leave: leave without saying Goodbye.
Granted, a Brexit Adventskalender is an oxymoron. But haven't so many of the arguments of Vote Leave and the lead Brexiteers been oxymoronic?
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