When is a catastrophe also a distraction? When it’s Brexit | Frances Ryan
In a cruel (but nevertheless accurate) analogy, Brexit is sometimes referred to as the political equivalent of setting your own house on fire. While David Cameron's gamble lit the match, Theresa May and her ministers have fanned the flames, lurching between the growing risk of a no-deal Brexit and warnings that even an optimistic deal will probably put at risk the NHS, trillions of pounds worth of contracts and tens of thousands of jobs.
But increasingly, I can't help but think there's a missing part to this analogy. It isn't only that Brexit means ministers are about to set the house on fire but that it's distracting from the fact that the rest of the street is already alight.
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