Brexit is haunted. Why weren't we warned?

By George ILIEV
Brexit Metaphor No 161 

If you buy or rent a property in Hong Kong, the real estate agent has to notify you if the property is "haunted": if someone at the property died prematurely (basically if somone was murdered or committed suicide).

The Brexit process has been "haunted" for almost three years now and it promises to remain "haunted" for the foreseeable future. No one was warned about this by the Brexiteer / Leave leaders. And now that Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement has been defeated today for the third time in Parliament, the ghost of this agreement will be added to the other haunted spirits stuck in limbo: the status of the Irish border, the status of the EU citizens in the UK, the status of the British citizens in the rest of the EU, etc.

Why weren't we warned that Brexit was at such a high risk of dying prematurely and turning into a spirit that will haunt us? Probably because if the Leave leaders had disclosed the truth, few voters would have voted Leave in the first place. Thus, we are stuck with the haunting spirit of Brexit but Halloween is a full 7 months away. Someone on the Leave side must have thought that the British public were pumpkins ready to be turned into Halloween lanterns in 2016. Three years later, may I wish you all Happy March 29 Halloween!

Halloween lantern (Source: Wikipedia)

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Notes:
1. Timeline: This article is part of a series of original #BrexitMetaphors published daily. A total of 161 have been posted between October 2018 and the planned Brexit date of March 29, 2019.
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