Fill in your own political metaphor

[pmv]

Multiple possible analogies occur to me (some of which I don't even agree with, but they still popped into my head...the one I'd go with is the attempt to present the Tory Party at the next election here as if it were anything other than a dead Party governing)

Real-life Weekend at Bernie’s? Ohio women take dead friend on a bank run

Karen Casbohm and Loreen Bea Feralo were arrested after they allegedly used the body of deceased housemate to access cash

www.theguardian.com

...police allege, with the help of an unnamed unnamed person, they put Layman’s body in the front seat of his car and drove to a bank with a drive-through window, where they took out “an undisclosed amount of money” from his account.

Layman’s body “was placed in the vehicle in such a manner that he would be visible to bank staff in order to make the withdrawal”, the police chief, Robert Stell, said in a news release on Thursday. Stell said the bank “had allowed this previously as long as they were accompanied by him”.

 

[Moonbeam]

The thought I had today was that if I keep on living like I do I will become the oldest person on Earth. You can take that to the bank.

 

[IronWing]

Multiple possible analogies occur to me (some of which I don't even agree with, but they still popped into my head...the one I'd go with is the attempt to present the Tory Party at the next election here as if it were anything other than a dead Party governing)

Real-life Weekend at Bernie’s? Ohio women take dead friend on a bank run

Karen Casbohm and Loreen Bea Feralo were arrested after they allegedly used the body of deceased housemate to access cash

www.theguardian.com

The Republicans have brought the corpse of Ronald Reagan with them to every election of the past 35 years.

 

[Moonbeam]

Multiple possible analogies occur to me (some of which I don't even agree with, but they still popped into my head...the one I'd go with is the attempt to present the Tory Party at the next election here as if it were anything other than a dead Party governing)

Real-life Weekend at Bernie’s? Ohio women take dead friend on a bank run

Karen Casbohm and Loreen Bea Feralo were arrested after they allegedly used the body of deceased housemate to access cash

www.theguardian.com

Hannibal Lecter came up with an interesting variation on that.