Brexit Metaphor No 113.
Earphone cables tend to get tangled into a knot. EU withdrawals tend to get messy. Who knew?!
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said earlier this week that there was a “special place in hell ... for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan.” Leaving a complex structure like the European Union could never have been easy. Sorting out the Brexit mess will now take years.
In 2008 two researchers from California won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating that a long piece of string will inevitably tangle itself up in knots. They revisited the topic in 2014 with new research showing that the probabilty of getting tangled into a knot increases dramatically when the length of a string goes up from 50 cm to 150 cm.
Sadly, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove never asked the Americans to run the experiment with a piece of EU-sized string. If they had done it, we wouldn't have found ourselves in this mess, and Johnson and Gove could have avoided that special place in hell.
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| Knot (Source: Wikipedia) |
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Even those Brexiteers who are "knot for turning" admit the complications of the "Brexit knot".
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