Brexit Metaphor No 13
Brexit is a bruise. Bruises first turn red as capillaries break under the skin. Then purplish-blue as the red blood cells start to break down. Then yellow-green as the haemoglobin of the damaged blood cells is converted into bilirubin.
Brexit has gone through similar colour phases: from the drawing of red lines, to softer hues, to the current version of "a whimper of a Brexit" facing a green constraint: the threat of an Irish veto over the Irish border.
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| Bruised eye healing over 9 days (Source: Wikipedia) |
The yellow-coloured waste product of the healing process, bilirubin, is recycled by the body into bile and used in digestion. Interestingly, bilirubin gives faeces their characteristically brown colour. Might this transformation also have a Brexit parallel in a certain straw-haired Leave leader with ambitions to become prime minister?
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(This article is part of a daily series, with 148 more Brexit Metaphors to follow until Brexit day, March 29, 2019.)
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