The Globe and Mail's Opinion section had an article titled "Britain bakes itself a sickly cake" It says "Cakeism - a nonsense of that half-eaten scone of a man, Boris Johnsonson - emerged from his Brexit negotiations, when the Prime Minister promised that his country could have its cake and eat it, too.
It turns out that there's a long list of cake quotes when it comes to England.
How did I miss the "ambushed with a cake" defence of Boris Johnson? He tried to play down his role at his birthday party on June 19 2020 saying he wasn't involved in planning the event and was caught by surprise.
That followed on the theme of one of Boris Johnson’s most famous lines which predated Brexit. It often re-surfaced after the referendum.
“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it,” he said this while serving as Mayor of London. It is a phrase which started to become shorthand for his approach to politics.
Others picked it up. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond quoted former German leader Ludwig Erhard, who said, “compromise is the art of dividing a cake in a such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.” Hammond added that these were “wise words with some applicability to the Brexit negotiations, although I try to discourage talk of cake amongst my colleagues.”
Bank of England chief Mark Carney weighed in by saying: “Before long, we will all begin to find out the extent to which Brexit is a gentle stroll along a smooth path to a land of cake and consumption.”
Who would believe that Michael Caine would have something to say about cake and politics: “When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.”
Margaret Thatcher: "The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone."
Looking further I find that the Chinese had their own cake theory.It is listed in Wikipedia. In relation to the problem of the wealth gap, in 2010, one side of the debate thought that development should focus on 'dividing the cake more fairly,' while the other that development should be focused on 'baking a bigger cake.'
I created this a few years ago and named it Birthday Cake in Pink.
