Brexit Metaphor No 86.
The EU is a tapestry of many colours. Britain is one of the main colours on the tapestry, most likely the colour Red. So it is no surprise that Theresa May is finding Brexit so difficult to deliver: imagine having to take out every red thread woven into a tapestry.
Many of the scenes on the EU/European tapestry have actually been designed by Britain, e.g. the Single Market (whose biggest supporter was Margaret Thatcher) and the European Court of Human Rights (not an EU institution but still a major British contribution to the post-war European landscape), to name but two. So taking the red threads out of all the scenes that are heavily infused in red is understandably difficult.
What happens after the red threads are removed? The EU tapestry will remain but will look totally dilapidated and barely recognisable. As for the UK, the British bits of the tapestry will be reduced to a shapeless pile of red threads (and I am not talking about Jeremy Corbyn).
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| Scene from the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry (Source: Wikipedia) |
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