A Brexit's a Brexit No Matter How Botched? Sometimes others' thoughts - however strictly irrelevant to the subject at hand when first penned - really say it all

'By the [relevant] lights, it was a generous and radical proposal...
But I think that I had subconsciously stipulated that [the relevant party] needed to forget the usual considerations of prudent caution and simply agree, just once, to what I wanted...
When I finally quit...no one seemed surprised...
Looking back, it seems that I was seeking a[n]...excellence to which [the relevant party] is no longer sure she aspires...
My feeble attempts to recall her to her duty - as I saw it - betrayed a fathomless disappointment at the collapse of a cherished ideal...
Perhaps it was a vainglorious and impossible dream - certainly one mocked too often by reality...

This is not a story which reflects much credit on its protagonists. On my part, it is a tale of impatience and a rather hubristic yearning for something bolder and braver...
I never entirely lost faith in [the relevant party]...It is because I desire her mission be more successful that I want her to face the truth...
...if [such and such] is simply the best that...can [be] provide[d] at the moment let that be squarely faced so that something better may promptly take its place...

Though the author, the originator of these words would doubtless be shocked, maybe even horrified, to find his original words - as I said at the outset, bearing no explicit, implicit or other conceivable reference or allusion to the matter of the British Brexit - could be used/employed or construed in such a manner to *describe all too graphically this ever-contentious subject...nevertheless their striking pertinence to that all-consuming topic strikes me as utterly dumbfounding and astonishing...and hence, having rather, even entirely inadvertently stumbled upon them early this morning, I simply repeat them here for your due perusal, consideration, examination and evaluation...

'Nuff said...for now.

*That is, to the matter itself and/or various of the major players and protagonists involved...

**From a 31-some year back ***column - Why I Left The Priesthood - by a one-time politically significant persona here in the Antipodes. ***In the August 18, 1987 edition of 'The Bulletin' (to be precise, and to give due credit where credit is due).