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cakeism

noun

  1. policy of having one’s cake and eating it too
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪkɪzəm/

noun

Etymology: From cake + -ism, referring to have one's cake and eat it too.

  1. The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations.

    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.