Should Britain follow the EU and abolish time changes, mimicking Franco's grovelling to Hitler

By George ILIEV
Brexit Metaphor No 136 

When you read about the EU wanting to delay a clock change move and trying to slow time, you cannot be blamed for thinking of Brexit. Yet, the EU is genuinely not preoccupied with the UK in this particular story about scrapping the twice-yearly changing of the time by an hour back and forth in March and October.

If the plan is carried through, the EU will stop changing the time after the summer of 2021 and most of the EU will be frozen in Central European Summer Time (CEST) for eternity. However, if post-Brexit Britain decides to continue changing its time, it will end up with a 2-hour time difference between Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and CEST in the winter. 

Wouldn't a moat of two full hours be the biggest present for the Brexiteers trying to defend "Fortress Britain" from the evil eurocrats? Who would have dreamed of a better time divide, deeper than the English Channel and taller than the Alps?

Yet, if the UK does go along with the Europeans and sticks to summer time for eternity, it will be accused by the very same Brexiteers of walking in the footsteps of Franco, who switched Spain from GMT to Central European Time (CET) around the time of World War 2 to align himself more closely with Hitler.

Scrapping time changes (Source: Reuters)

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