How to Tell Brexit from Breakfast

Posted bycfredjohn 1 Comment on How to Tell Brexit from Breakfast

Here are some useful guidelines to help resolve the semantic confusion between Breakfast and Brexit.

Breakfast happens once a day.   Brexit lasts all day long, but never happens.

You eat breakfast.    Brexit devours you.

At breakfast, you butter your bread.   With Brexit, you sputter instead.

Breakfast may feature ham with egg on a plate.   Brexit features a ham with egg on his face.

You can order a Continental Breakfast.   There is no such thing as a Continental Brexit.                      

At breakfast, there is no shortage of jam.   With Brexit, jams cause shortages.                                        

A cooked breakfast may include Irish oatmeal.   A crooked Brexit may exclude the Irish outright. 

In some foreign places, breakfast means grits. Forget foreign races; Brexit is for Brits.

Skipping breakfast is no big deal; you can make it up at lunch.   You can never make up for a no-deal Brexit. 

Breakfast lies between sunrise and noon.  Brexit lies to sundry and Queen.

At select hotels, you get a breakfast buffet with all you can eat.  In an election from hell, you get a Brexit buffoon with all at his feet.                         

Published by cfredjohn

I am an inveterate observer and sometimes provacative commentator on our times. My primary foci include the political scene, social trends, and other aspects of modern life. I try to provide a fresh perspective on current developments and seek a larger framework rather than commenting on daily events. I also seek to provide an objective, rational and ethical basis for understanding the world around us. While many of the themes explored here are in a more serious vein, I balance these with the occasional more humorous blogs, including some parodies of well-known songs. My professional background lies in the market research arena, with decades of experience working for both research companies and on the corporate side. My academic background is in political science, history, and musicology.

One reply on “How to Tell Brexit from Breakfast”

  1. How I love your blog on “how to tell Brexit from breakfast”. I have just returned from a short vacation with friends who are staunch Brexiters. Since I was spending time with these people I didn’t want to fall out and yet we couldn’t help getting into a discussion on the subject. I’m always intrigued as to why people believe Brexit is a good thing. My friends gave me the usual response of “we will take back control”. When I asked for an example of what they meant by this they quoted an old myth (they didn’t think it was a myth) which said that the European Union had a policy on the “straightness” of bananas. So there you have it – now we will be exiting from the EU we will be able to have straight bananas with our breakfast. Hmmmmm!!

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