Yes, *Hannah's right on: 'Brexit', or more correctly, the entire Brexit process/saga/rigmarole/ kerfuffle...is now well and truly into the nether reaches of "beyond confusing": yes, mystifying and confounding, baffling, perplexing and flummoxing...
To borrow a well-worn phrase a sister's wont to employ, that if one's not anxious [with all that's going down these days...here, there and everywhere], then you haven't been/aren't paying [sufficient] attention - how about this variation from the BBC's veteran Brexit commentator/interpreter, Rob Watson, upon its **weekday 'OS' programme: "If you're not now thoroughly confused by [all the seemingly interminable kerfuffle over] Brexit [or, moreover, the Conservative-led Government's renegotiations thereof], then you're simply not paying attention!" (Italics mine.)
For those seeking the reason for all the endless tooing and froing, the dithering and dallying, the **shillying and shallying that has transpired since Britons' fateful decision to exit the EU way back when...they need look no further than the abject failure of previous successive British governments and their respective leaderships to keep abreast of, let alone account for and deal with and to, a long-simmering discontent within the bowels of the body politic...
a discontent and resentment that has come to the surface from time to time in spits and spats...just as a volcano's latent tensions and pent-up energies and writhing, seething furies cannot be forever kept down and buried and hidden from sight...
For just as with a classic passive aggressive(s), until and unless long-repressed and suppressed and ever-boiling frictions and frustrations are dealt with - properly and out in the open - they will just continue to fester and fester and ultimately boil over and burst out upon the scene spilling their roiling contents over all and sundry in a seething mass of heat and fury...
The silent lesson (of/in all of this)? ***If you never get around to it, it'll never get dealt with. If you never deal with and to the 'elephant in the room' it'll keep causing trouble on and on and on ad nauseum... So in classic 'well-mannered' British - and to some extent kiwi - fashion - unlike our bold and brazen trans-tasman *****cousins/neighbours the Aussies (from the land of Oz), who prefer, 'as a whole' - somewhat like the Americans - to 'just tell it as it is', to let it all hang out...
The Brits, by contrast - in their classic, self-effacing and unassuming, 'let's not upset anyone', discreet manner - in thus not being sufficiently direct and above-board, preferring to not ruffle feathers and leave (everything) well enough alone...
...have ended up being dished up with a hearty serving of what they least desired: confusion and chaos...to the nth degree, and way beyond...
Again, the lesson being? That if you do everything to not rock the boat - stifling the simmering discontents within, everything will - inevitably - come back ultimately to bite you in the posterior...in the derriere, if you'll pardon my French...
...which just goes to vindicate the long-established truism: you don't solve any problem by forever ignoring it and pushing it down, down, down...for the law 'of things' presupposes that for each and every last cause there'll be an equal and opposite effect, for every action there'll be a reaction...
**Okay, 'shillying and shallying' isn't real kosher terminology, I readily accept...I just happen to like the way it sounds...it should've been 'shilly-shally(ing)'...
****Something a certain Conservative Party M.P. stated in so many words only hours ago (as U K parliamentarians debated yet again ahead of another vote on another set of significant amendments to the Theresa May's Government's newfangled 'agreement' with the European Union), referring to the degree of bile - or was that 'vile'? - that'd clearly built up over recent years post the Brexit referendum ...upon all sides of the issue...
*As one of the contributers to BBC Radio's OS 'Conversations' segment (29/1) from Leicester...
***Memories flood back of selfsame sister's purchase in her youth/presentation as a gift of a t-shirt emblazoned: 'a round tu-it.'
**/****Additional BBC 'OS' programmes (29/1;30/1 etc) over recent days and weeks especially.
*****Really no longer proper relatives (from the way they treat us these days), indeed, as ye ole saying goes, 'with friends [such as] these, [well] who [really] needs enemies?' Who indeed?!?!?
To borrow a well-worn phrase a sister's wont to employ, that if one's not anxious [with all that's going down these days...here, there and everywhere], then you haven't been/aren't paying [sufficient] attention - how about this variation from the BBC's veteran Brexit commentator/interpreter, Rob Watson, upon its **weekday 'OS' programme: "If you're not now thoroughly confused by [all the seemingly interminable kerfuffle over] Brexit [or, moreover, the Conservative-led Government's renegotiations thereof], then you're simply not paying attention!" (Italics mine.)
For those seeking the reason for all the endless tooing and froing, the dithering and dallying, the **shillying and shallying that has transpired since Britons' fateful decision to exit the EU way back when...they need look no further than the abject failure of previous successive British governments and their respective leaderships to keep abreast of, let alone account for and deal with and to, a long-simmering discontent within the bowels of the body politic...
a discontent and resentment that has come to the surface from time to time in spits and spats...just as a volcano's latent tensions and pent-up energies and writhing, seething furies cannot be forever kept down and buried and hidden from sight...
For just as with a classic passive aggressive(s), until and unless long-repressed and suppressed and ever-boiling frictions and frustrations are dealt with - properly and out in the open - they will just continue to fester and fester and ultimately boil over and burst out upon the scene spilling their roiling contents over all and sundry in a seething mass of heat and fury...
The silent lesson (of/in all of this)? ***If you never get around to it, it'll never get dealt with. If you never deal with and to the 'elephant in the room' it'll keep causing trouble on and on and on ad nauseum... So in classic 'well-mannered' British - and to some extent kiwi - fashion - unlike our bold and brazen trans-tasman *****cousins/neighbours the Aussies (from the land of Oz), who prefer, 'as a whole' - somewhat like the Americans - to 'just tell it as it is', to let it all hang out...
The Brits, by contrast - in their classic, self-effacing and unassuming, 'let's not upset anyone', discreet manner - in thus not being sufficiently direct and above-board, preferring to not ruffle feathers and leave (everything) well enough alone...
...have ended up being dished up with a hearty serving of what they least desired: confusion and chaos...to the nth degree, and way beyond...
Again, the lesson being? That if you do everything to not rock the boat - stifling the simmering discontents within, everything will - inevitably - come back ultimately to bite you in the posterior...in the derriere, if you'll pardon my French...
...which just goes to vindicate the long-established truism: you don't solve any problem by forever ignoring it and pushing it down, down, down...for the law 'of things' presupposes that for each and every last cause there'll be an equal and opposite effect, for every action there'll be a reaction...
**Okay, 'shillying and shallying' isn't real kosher terminology, I readily accept...I just happen to like the way it sounds...it should've been 'shilly-shally(ing)'...
****Something a certain Conservative Party M.P. stated in so many words only hours ago (as U K parliamentarians debated yet again ahead of another vote on another set of significant amendments to the Theresa May's Government's newfangled 'agreement' with the European Union), referring to the degree of bile - or was that 'vile'? - that'd clearly built up over recent years post the Brexit referendum ...upon all sides of the issue...
*As one of the contributers to BBC Radio's OS 'Conversations' segment (29/1) from Leicester...
***Memories flood back of selfsame sister's purchase in her youth/presentation as a gift of a t-shirt emblazoned: 'a round tu-it.'
**/****Additional BBC 'OS' programmes (29/1;30/1 etc) over recent days and weeks especially.
*****Really no longer proper relatives (from the way they treat us these days), indeed, as ye ole saying goes, 'with friends [such as] these, [well] who [really] needs enemies?' Who indeed?!?!?
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