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This came up in my news feeds which was quite apt.
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Around two decades ago, a contestant on Ready Steady Cook who fancied himself something of a comedy legend overturned his plastic bag to reveal the ingredients he had brought with him from home, from which he expected his mystery celebrity chef to whip up a gourmet feast inside 20 minutes. They were: a Pot Noodle, a Mars Bar and a can of lager.
Twenty minutes later, all of which this young man had spent grinning to himself at his anarchic powers of daytime TV format subversion, Antony Worrall Thompson presented him the following meal: a Mars Bar, lightly fried in a lager batter, and, decanted into a nice white china bowl, a Pot Noodle.
It was at this point that the chap had the temerity to question Worrall Thompson’s powers of invention. He may even have muttered the words: “I could have done that myself.”
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Was he really that stupid or was he just taking the piss? Alas, the credits rolled before these questions could be meaningfully explored. And suddenly, 20 short years later, Theresa May has returned from Brussels with her “Political Declaration setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom”, and the same is being asked of a very large proportion of pro-Brexit Tory MPs.
As a gentle reminder, it is the UK, not the EU, that has turned up to these negotiations with the Pot Noodle/Mars Bar/lager triptych of demands that involve leaving the single market, leaving the customs union, but, by some process of dark magic, to do so in a way that does not require any kind of customs checks on the border in Ireland, where the EU will end and the UK will begin.
For 18 long months, the EU could not have been clearer about the limited range of culinary solutions these base ingredients offer. For 18 long months, here on the UK side, chocolate and dehydrated noodle related alchemy has been demanded.
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"This came up in my news feeds which was quite apt.
Around two decades ago, a contestant on Ready Steady Cook who fancied himself something of a comedy legend overturned his plastic bag to reveal the ingredients he had brought with him from home, from which he expected his mystery celebrity chef to whip up a gourmet feast inside 20 minutes. They were: a Pot Noodle, a Mars Bar and a can of lager.
Twenty minutes later, all of which this young man had spent grinning to himself at his anarchic powers of daytime TV format subversion, Antony Worrall Thompson presented him the following meal: a Mars Bar, lightly fried in a lager batter, and, decanted into a nice white china bowl, a Pot Noodle.
It was at this point that the chap had the temerity to question Worrall Thompson’s powers of invention. He may even have muttered the words: “I could have done that myself.”
Watch more
May accused of delivering ‘blindfold Brexit’ with vague deal
Was he really that stupid or was he just taking the piss? Alas, the credits rolled before these questions could be meaningfully explored. And suddenly, 20 short years later, Theresa May has returned from Brussels with her “Political Declaration setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom”, and the same is being asked of a very large proportion of pro-Brexit Tory MPs.
As a gentle reminder, it is the UK, not the EU, that has turned up to these negotiations with the Pot Noodle/Mars Bar/lager triptych of demands that involve leaving the single market, leaving the customs union, but, by some process of dark magic, to do so in a way that does not require any kind of customs checks on the border in Ireland, where the EU will end and the UK will begin.
For 18 long months, the EU could not have been clearer about the limited range of culinary solutions these base ingredients offer. For 18 long months, here on the UK side, chocolate and dehydrated noodle related alchemy has been demanded.
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Good analogy
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