"cakeism" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cake + -ism, referring to have one's cake and eat it too.",
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          "ref": "2017, The New European, \"The delusions of Cakeism\", Bonnie Greer, 15 September 2017",
          "text": "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."
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        {
          "ref": "2018, The Guardian, \"David Davis's petulant leaked letter is the latest slice of Brexit cakeism\", Jonathan Lis, 10 January 2018",
          "text": "The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, The Guardian, \"The dishonesty of Boris Johnson has finally infected the entire government\", Jonathan Freedland, 19 November 2021",
          "text": "The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, The Guardian, \"The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry\", Rafael Behr, 22 December 2021",
          "text": "Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, The Guardian, \"Brexit legacy is just the start of incoming PM's problems as cost of living crisis spirals\", Will Hutton, 10 July 2022",
          "text": "\"Cakeism\" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities."
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        "The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations."
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        "(UK politics) The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations."
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, The Guardian, \"David Davis's petulant leaked letter is the latest slice of Brexit cakeism\", Jonathan Lis, 10 January 2018",
          "text": "The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism."
        },
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          "ref": "2021, The Guardian, \"The dishonesty of Boris Johnson has finally infected the entire government\", Jonathan Freedland, 19 November 2021",
          "text": "The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed."
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        },
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