Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

What parking disputes have taught me about Brexit

People want you to know what’s theirs, and what’s yours is theirs too

Credit: AlexeyZel 
issue 09 January 2021

Our battle with the EU has given me an insight into the parking disputes outside my house. Or is it that the parking disputes outside my house have given me an insight into Britain’s battle with the EU?

Either way, I was reading through this Brexit trade deal we’ve accepted because we can’t be bothered to counter illogic with logic any longer, and it suddenly occurred to me why my neighbours persist in parking outside my house. And why, when I then park outside their house or someone else’s, I’m the one getting the funny looks.

People push each other about for no better reason than the way one horse kicks another in a field. Sometimes they want you to know that what’s theirs is theirs and what’s yours is theirs too, as a way of hoofing you in the face.

And so it is with the strip of unmade track outside eight houses facing on to the village green where I live.

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