Brexit-pancake syndrome

Brexit is like a burnt pancake; there are the non-burnt areas and the burnt areas.

Making a good pancake mixture is a difficult thing to do, the same goes for building a complicated politico-economic union, such as the EU. At first you went to the grocery store and bought all the ingredients, but the problem was that you didn’t have a recipe. You found yourself in a situation where you had these different components and you were supposed to make a good mixture out of them and later prepare something edible out of it, without burning it of course. 

Just like in the joining process of Great Britain to the EU, there was lots of things to negotiate about. After all the struggle, you finally made your way up to the cashier, but the cash register accepted only one certain currency. What did you do? You made a deal with the cashier that you could pay with your own currency. 

You were done with your shopping and it was time to head back home. You started the car and drove the whole trip on the left side of the road, you did it your way. 
You finally made your way back home and started making your beloved pancakes. You made the best mixture of the world, at least you think it was the best one. 

You heated up the pan with some butter and began, simple, right? Took the first scoop and poured it in, after a couple of minutes it was time to flip it. “Yummy, Sweet”, you screamed in your mind with a childish voice. Everything was going good in the EU “wonderland”.

But then suddenly, the doorbell rang and there were two silly guys trying to sell you sweets that you had zero interest in buying, as if I didn’t have enough on my waist already. You had no choice and you had to buy the sweets just to get the merchants off your back. They were working people, you thought to yourself, with needs and responsibilities. The conflict in Middle East caused an asylum seeker flow into Europe and nobody was expecting it to happen.  

Going back to the kitchen and you found the burnt pancake, you wondered who was to blame, the merchants of course. They interrupted you and they must be the reason for all the bad things to happen. You got mad and decided to build a fence, so no one could disturb your time again. You decided to leave the club of people who allow merchants entry your yard.

Now the hardest part was what to do with the burnt pancake? Eat it, throw it away or cut it in pieces and eat the non-burnt areas? It wouldn’t be easy to decide, but after a while something would come up. The Britain referendum result shows that the EU is going through a turning point in its history and the decisions of today will determine the future of the whole continent. 

Amir Abdelamir