Brexit Metaphor No 137
Hard-core Brexiteer politicians are confusing open-heart surgery with getting a new haircut. If only Brexit were such a trivial matter and not the gravely serious process that poses huge risks for modern Britain's economic and political health.
An alternative interpretation of the chaos that has engulfed the country is that Brexit politicians may have known that they were advocating for surgery, but the only way they could bring their patients around to agree to have heart surgery performed on them in a barber shop was to convince them that they were merely getting a haircut. This is how Brexiteers presented their case to the 17.4 million people who voted Leave in 2016.
In China important things and people are said to be "as heavy as Mount Tai" (重于泰山), while the insignificant and trivial are "as light as a goose feather" (轻于鸿毛). Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg must have shed plenty of goose feathers while flitting around their barber shop surgery.
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| Open-heart surgery (Source: Wikipedia) |
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