I was thinking this morning that it was all very well for our Foreign Secretary to make careless bets on the future of our country and to take risks, because he is rich. And if he were to be chucked out of politics, he could, in the short term at least, make a good living as a journalist. Nothing that Brexit might chuck at the rest of us is going to affect him all that much. And if push comes to shove, he can always skulk off to the Virgin Islands or some such place and live his time out in the tax-free sun.
But some of the rest of us, not so fortunate in money matters, will not be so lucky.
But then again, to have too much skin in the game might mean that one was not prepared to take risks at all. Which would not be too clever either. A bit like negotiating the price of the house one wants oneself, rather than getting a professional, an estate agent, to do it one's behalf.
Notwithstanding, I think we might have got a better result if our Secretary had had a bit more skin in this game.
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