Brexit is like quitting Netflix to build your own streaming service (because theirs is rubbish and doesn't match your sensibilities) while simultaneously demanding Netflix allow you to keep accessing their content because you're BRITISH.
(🎩 @jamesbaconx for the metaphor idea.)
(🎩 @jamesbaconx for the metaphor idea.)
And when Netflix refuse, on the sensible grounds that you're not a member of their service any more (and plan to be a major competitor to boot) you accuse them of bullying, bloody-minded punishment behaviour.
After you've quit their service, you use the fact that Netflix don't let you access their content any more to retroactively justify your decision to leave.
"If they're that selfish now that we're no longer a member, we should never have been a member at all!"
"If they're that selfish now that we're no longer a member, we should never have been a member at all!"
Meanwhile, while you're pouring billions of pounds into getting half a dozen cat videos to stream without freezing, the subscribers who kept up their Netflix subscriptions continue to enjoy thousands of films and TV programmes for a low monthly fee.
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