UK wants to re-bake the perfectly formed EU cake into a muffin

By George ILIEV
Brexit Metaphor No 116. 

Britain has a soft spot for cakes: The Great British Bake Off is a popular BBC reality show; "cakes and ale" is a synonym for the pleasures of life; and "a piece of cake" is the easiest of things.

So since 2016 the UK has decided not only to have its cake and eat it, but also to re-bake the EU cake and squash it into a muffin. The only problem is that the EU cake has been baked over 60 years and the syrup, cream and icing are already in place: the Single Market with its Four Freedoms, the Customs Union and Schengen seem to be working more or less in sync. So taking a perfectly formed cake and putting it again in the oven would not be such a good idea, let alone deforming it to make a muffin out of it (or Brexiteers might even want a Yorkshire pudding).

The EU has suggested multiple times that the UK should simply take its piece of the cake and leave the rest. Yet, Britain is still hoping that the EU will allow for the EU cake to be mangled by the Brexiteer politicans as they fancy. 

Hope and cake might both seem to spring eternal but Britain's spring will be shortlived, ending on March 29 (Brexit day). And it looks likely that there may not be any cake at all, so ale and whisky will have to substitute.

Cake (Source: Wikipedia)

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