Brexit Metaphor No 5
Three blind men were once asked to describe an elephant. One touched the trunk and said it felt like a snake. One touched a leg and thought it was a a tree. One touched the tail and said it was like a rope.
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| Three blind men and an elephant (Source: Wikipedia) |
46.5 million people were once asked to vote in a Brexit referendum. One saw a poster of Syrian refugees and concluded the EU had a problem with migration. One saw a bus promising to divert £350 million a week from the EU to the NHS and liked the idea. One read an article about the eurozone and decided that the euro was doomed and so was EU competitiveness. One heard from someone at a flea market that Brussels had banned curvy bananas and bristled at the administrative excess of unelected bureaucrats.
Few of those 46.5 million people were blind. But so many of them would still struggle to describe the EU "elephant". And if their descriptions make no sense, should we have them in Zoology textbooks and David Attenborough documentaries?
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(This article is part of a daily series, with 156 more Brexit Metaphors to follow until Brexit day, March 29, 2019.)
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