Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
Its either an analogy or anecdote, please make your mind up! You are being a tad pedantic here, which is kind of par for the course, rather than addressing the main point, which is that your comment about remainers being poor losers wasn't an accurate description. Puts in mind of scenarios where at work I would be overruled on adopting a certain course of action, which I had a pretty good idea would turn out to be the wrong choice. When the inevitable happened, I would then be accused of being prejudiced because it wasn't what I wanted to do, to which my response was twofold. 1. No its because hasn't worked. 2. Even if I was prejudiced, it still hasn't worked.
A ‘tad pedantic’! Understatement of the day.
Analogies are not meant to be taken literally they are a comparison of the partial similarity between objects or scenarios. Hence one might describe Claude Davis as being as much use as a chocolate teapot...or the futility of trying to sort the current Cabinet as being like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. No one actually tried to rearrange any deckchairs as the Titanic went down and there are no such things as chocolate teapots. That is kind of the point.
A car being driven over a cliff edge, because no one will shout ‘stop and think about it’, is IMO, a perfectly valid comparison/analogy with the stupidity and stubbornness of Brexit as our economy plummets.