Brexit Metaphor No 85.
In Bulgaria's stingiest city, Gabrovo, people are anecdotally known to cut off the tails of their cats so that if you open the front door to let your cat out of the house, the door needs to stay open as short as possible and heat loss is kept to a minimum.
Northern Ireland is the tail of the UK cat. In the current Brexit process "the tail is wagging the cat", causing enormous difficulties for Theresa May and her EU Withdrawal Agreement. She must be secretly wishing that the tail had been cut off from the United Kingdom back in 1922 when the partition of Ireland de facto took place. The spectre of the 1922 Committee (name unrelated to Ireland) is still chasing the British Prime Minister, even though she fended off the most recent attack on her premiership by the very 1922 Committee.
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| Manx cat with stumpy tail (Source: Wikipedia) |
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