Could This Serve As A Motto For Our Britex Negotiators?

[sandyRoe]

Keep Britex always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you isolate the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Britex to make you rich.


With apologies to Cavafy.

[gulliver1]

Think you are probably correct there Sandy, some people seem to think it will never happen!!.

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds a dodgy motto. Goes seriously wrong at line 4 onwards. Still interesting you think it will make us wealthy. Most who oppose kept claiming it would make us destitute.

[Hopkirk]

Most people call it Brexit

[bednobs]

what is britex sandy?

[Hopkirk]

http://a5.mzstatic.com/au/r30/Purple/v4/5c/f5/4d/5cf54d60-c802-cc3c-e573-a2072c656be7/screen320x480.jpeg

[-Talbot-]

Yeah that motto just rolls of the tongue, Sandy

[sandyRoe]

Britex is an error on my part. Brexit it is.
sorry

[gulliver1]

What is Brexit?? eh!.

[Old_Geezer]

It's a typo I've seen before on the site. I think some spell checkers must change it.

[Peter Pedant]

blimey Sandy
Cavafy - thanks for putting that in

I would call it a gloss otherwise on RLStevenson - it is sometimes better to travel in hope than to arrive...

making the Britex journey and finding it is paved with gold
.... I am not sure
The tousled haired marvel - now foreign secretary - was rich already wasnt he, before he started out on the journey to the top ?

PS we need you on the Hijab thread where the classical boys are getting it in the neck for being ... erm classical
they mention Mt Erebus which to my mind is a volcano in antartica and doesnt refer to the first five beings on earth a/c to Hesiod
but who am I to criticise for obscurity ?

[Peter Pedant]

Britex - Brexit - ignore them Sandy
the classicists call this - metathesis....

http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/metathesisterm.htm