Kismet is a killer
It is a sad fact of political life that at some point the tide changes and there is nothing that you can do to change it. Not only that but every attempt to change it is doomed to humiliating failure.
For some strange, inevitable reason; your relaunch set will collapse or your important interview crash and burn, your posters will have spelling mistakes or use stolen images and have to be pulped, and all your announcements turn to dust.
Relaunching “levelling-up” by announcing more money for London and the South East was a “brave move” or more precisely a cynical ploy that is painfully obvious. Stuffing money into Tory constituencies is shameless, and if not actually corrupt certainly corrupting.
So, it is perhaps just fate that the PM recorded an embarrassingly bad video in a car without a seat belt on. The story is now that the PM thinks the rules don’t apply to him.
Maybe it is not bad luck but just some kind of rebalancing, an invisible kind of natural justice.
Perhaps if the government had actually done the right thing, found the money for depressed regions and tried to seriously rebalance the economy fairly, no one would have noticed the missing seat belt or the PM might have insisted on doing the right thing and wearing it.
Kismet just kicks you in the teeth sometimes and sometimes you deserve it.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media