Meaning of cakeism | Babel Free

Definitions

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

UK, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.”

“Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.”

“"Cakeism" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities.”

CEFR level