Brexit Metaphor No 120.
Foxes are clever animals, as the photo below from Birmingham can attest. In Britain the one-metre tall plastic rubbish bins for household waste in the street are designed to be fox-proof: the lid covers the bin fully so there is no space on top of the bin where a fox can stand and try to lift the lid. However, if you put the bin next to a fence at the height of the bin, the fox can use the fence as a platform to step on and then can easily lift the lid.
The 2016 EU Referendum gave Brexiteers exactly this type of a platform. With its help, they managed to lift the lid of the rubbish bin of the UK-EU relationship and scattered the garbage across the street. This rubbish has been out for almost three years now.
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| British urban fox trying to get to a rabbit (Source: Wikipedia) |
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