We are the eggs being broken for this rotten Brexit omelette | Christina Patterson

Politicians seem to have forgotten that our lives are on hold, and our livelihoods in jeopardy, thanks to their incompetence

“The nation has a breakdown”. This was a headline on Radio 4’s PM this week. It was said in that usual Radio 4 tone of jocular irony. All rather fascinating and quite amusing. No, it isn’t.

We all respond to stress in different ways. Since Monday afternoon, when I should have been trying to earn some money, I have been gripped by a migraine and the latest episode in the slow-motion national car crash, the one that was meant to end with a vote. But it didn’t. There was a deadline, and then there wasn’t. I’d been counting down the hours, desperate to know what would happen next. In real life, if you don’t meet deadlines you don’t work again or your business fails. In parliamentary politics, we now know, they’re just movable goalposts in a deadly game.

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