cakeism
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The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations.
英国 不可数 政治What is now known as “cakeism” – the idea that the UK can have everything it wants merely because it wants it – is becoming, like climate-change denial, the subject of rational discussion.
The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism.
The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.
Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.
"Cakeism" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities.
词源
From cake + -ism, referring to have one's cake and eat it too.
来源:wiktionary