Our Brexit-backing politicians are making fools of us

The great physicist Richard Feynman warned of the perpetual torment that lies in wait for people who try to understand quantum mechanics. Modern physics cannot be understood. It can only be observed. ‘I am going to tell you what nature behaves like,’ Feynman said. ‘Do not keep saying to yourself, “but how can it be like that?” because you will get down the drain, into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.’

Equally, nobody knows how the Conservative Party can be like that. It just is. Theresa May, to pick an example. Every morning I wake up and check if she is still prime minister. Every morning the answer comes back, ‘apparently so’. She threw away a 20 per cent plus opinion poll lead and the first Conservative majority the Tories had won since 1992. I am not going to attempt to explain why she hasn’t resigned, that would be to lead you down Feynman’s drain and up his blind alley.