George Costanza, the stocky, balding and painfully insecure anti-hero from the Nineties sitcom, Seinfeld, contended that the lifecycle was backwards.
Instead, he thought, people should die first, then move into an old-age home, get kicked out for being too healthy, collect a pension, pick up a gold watch on their first day of work, retire when young and healthy, enjoy a responsibility-free childhood before finishing off as an orgasm. Curiously, this is how I’ve been experiencing British elections.
