By George ILIEV
Brexit Metaphor No 162
With the decision to prorogue Parliament, Boris Johnson is turning Britain into a headless chicken. And if chicken is too diminutive a word for a great country, then perhaps a headless torso will do. It comes Greek-antiquity style, just as Etonians like it. Boris also seems to like Athenian-style direct democracy: rule by "The People".
So did Mussolini.
Britain is cutting off its head so it "has no tongue with which to speak or eyes with which to see". The metaphor is mine, but Jacob Rees-Mogg used the quoted line in an attack against the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, on BBC Radio 4 on August 29. How appropriate!
Eyes and tongue? Who needs such paraphernalia if there is no head?
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| Headless torso (Source: Wikipedia) |
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