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The thing is, the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that 52 percent of Britain had voted that the government should build a submarine out of cheese.
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Here follows a Brexit thread.
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Sorry.
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Now, Theresa May was initially against building a submarine out of cheese, obviously. Because it’s a completely insane thing to do.
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However, in order to become PM, she had to pretend that she thought building a submarine out of cheese was fine and could totally work.
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"Cheese means cheese," she told us all, madly.
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Then she actually built one.
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It’s shit. Of course it is. For God’s sake, are you stupid? It’s a submarine built out of cheese.
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So now, having built a shit cheese submarine, she has to put up with both Labour and Tory Brexiters insisting that a less shit cheese submarine could have been built.
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They’re all lying, and they know it. So does everybody else. We've covered this already, I know, but it’s cheese and it’s a submarine. How good could it possibly be?
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Only she can’t call them out on this. Because she has spent the past two years also lying, by pretending she really could build a decent submarine out of cheese.
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So that’s where we are.
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On balance, I this analogy works fine, perhaps except for the submarine and cheese parts, which need a little work.
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Thread ends.
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