I like a good , flowery political metaphor, and this is a particularly vivid one, from Andrew Rawnsley

“Rather than scotch Reform, going early flushed out Nigel Farage to play the role of smirking fire ship smashing into the side of the creaking Tory hulk.”

www.theguardian.com/commentis…

painting:The Burning of the Turkish Flagship by Kanaris - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1881