Guy's Twitter Thread Explains Brexit For Dummies

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mattstaff
Dec 11, 2018 3:00 PM EST

Bit of a cheesy analogy, but it might do the trick. 

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    Text - Hugo Rifkind Follow @hugorifkind 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. 12:11 PM - 10 Dec 2018 2,835 Retweets 5,734 Likes t 2.8K 5.7K 291 Tweet your reply
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    Text - Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind 5h Now, Theresa May was initially against building a submarine out of cheese, obviously. Because it's a completely insane thing to do. t 98 20 818 Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind 5h 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. 11 t107 835 Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind 5h "Cheese means cheese," she told us all, madly. t82 5 843 Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind 5h Then she actually built one. t
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    Text - Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind 5h 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. t 134 13 952 Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind 5h 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? t91 6 901 Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind 5h Only she can't call them out on this. Because she has
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    Text - Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind 5h On balance, I this analogy works fine, perhaps except for the submarine and cheese parts, which need a little work. t59 57 1.6K Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind 5h Thread ends. t52 178 1.2K
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