Brexit dream 4

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I awoke from a confused dream, tried to make some sense out of it. It involved night after night of fruitless effort, always the same.

Not till the seventh night  did anything definite take shape, in the form of a young woman who came forward & offered herself.  What and to whom was not made explicit. She was young and beautiful: many called her a victim, affecting outrage at her alleged treatment, which she hotly denied. Not only was it her choice, she said, but by giving herself completely, as an act of self-sacrifice, there was pleasure enough to feel amply rewarded.

I get a lot of uneasy and repetitive dreams these days: something to do with the medication? This one was different, the seventh night had a happy ending, though I couldn’t say what it was.

Just when it seemed time to celebrate, I heard, via hearsay, that the whole ordeal of seven nights was to be repeated one more time. Oh no! I was so frustrated, it woke me up.

Lying awake in bed, in the darkness before dawn, I suddenly realized that there are only seven nights remaining till March 29th, the designated day for Brexit.

So who was this beautiful young woman? Could she be Theresa May, our Prime Minister, commonly caricatured as a desperate harpy? In real life, she has no children, so could be portrayed mythologically as a pure virgin. I do consider she has been cleansed by her sense of duty and suffering, and stands as a martyr for the country she represents, without guile or ambition at last after a career in politics, which sadly requires both. Her predecessor David Cameron fled from politics the moment he lost the referendum, leaving her to hold the fort.

If Theresa May had the charisma of Joan of Arc when bound to the stake, might she have succeeded in securing a deal?

I wish her problems would stay out of my dreams.

7 thoughts on “Brexit dream 4”

  1. After writing the above, I saw a petition has been set up here https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open to notify Parliament of signatories who want it to revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. Above a certain number of signatories, Parliament is bound to make time for a debate on any given issue. It’s the nearest thing to direct democracy in the circumstances, by informing our MPs of the strength of feeling among constituents.

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  2. As soon as I read in your post of the ‘seventh night’ within your dream I began to think of think of Blake’s The Four Zoas, a Dream of Nine Nights. In Night the Seventh he tried to resolve the dilemma which had developed in the first six nights. He struggled with it until he was forced to rewrite it completely. He did complete the final two nights but was never satisfied enough to engrave and publish the document. However, neither was he ever willing to consign it to the fire. If it contains error, it also contains truth. Each individual is free to sift through the pages using his own filters of experience to discern the meaning which he can apply to the development of his own “human form divine.”

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  4. Thanks Michael. I was still tweaking it, I think, when your comment appeared. These pieces invariably get published first and only then am I hit by deadline frenzy and look at them critically enough to see their faults.

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  5. What seems plain to me now is that the referendum of 2016 was morally invalid since whoever formulated it had no idea of the consequences. None of those who voted one way or the other can be blamed for this, not that I care to assign blame. The campaigning was awful and it wouldn’t be any better if there was a further referendum.

    Nearly 3 years later and still nobody has much idea of the consequences.

    Ideal solution would be for Parliament, or the Government, whichever is in charge (does anyone know?) to use its power to revoke Article 50 forthwith or on 28th March.

    Main reason they won’t is the loss of face involved in admitting the uselessness of all the political activity to date. I could imagine a super-honest MP confessing this only if he or she was prepared to give up a political career. But true redemption rarely happens overnight.

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  6. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes

    The first law of holes, or the law of holes, is an adage which states that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging”. Digging a hole makes it deeper and therefore harder to get back out, which is used as a metaphor that when in an untenable position, it is best to stop carrying on and exacerbating the situation.

    I woke up to the vanity and self-interest of our politicians, to the extent that I see democracy as no longer possible.

    This problem was always there, like the San Andreas Fault in California. Sooner or later, expect catastrophe.

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