This Brexit analogy went viral because it’s funny and totally nails it – and prompted all sorts of cheesy puns

Journalist Hugo Rifkind came up with a particularly unusual analogy for where Theresa May and Brexit are right now and it went viral because it was funny and totally accurate at the same time.

Here’s what he said.

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Here follows a Brexit thread.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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Sorry.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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The thing is, the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that 52 percent of Britain had voted that the government should build a submarine out of cheese.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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Now, Theresa May was initially against building a submarine out of cheese, obviously. Because it’s a completely insane thing to do.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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However, in order to become PM, she had to pretend that she thought building a submarine out of cheese was fine and could totally work.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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“Cheese means cheese,” she told us all, madly.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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Then she actually built one.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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It’s shit. Of course it is. For God’s sake, are you stupid? It’s a submarine built out of cheese.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018

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So now, having built a shit cheese submarine, she has to put up with both Labour and Tory Brexiters insisting that a less shit cheese submarine could have been built.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 10, 2018