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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 3, 2020 14:35:09 GMT
I thought you would like some pushback against the kind of public school graduates who tend to fill these roles and their lack of real world experience no? Cummings doesn't have the power to appoint senior civil servants or senior advisors on his own. And even if he did there's no way he'd be appointing people from council estates. It's an iconoclastic fantasy and I don't believe a word of it. Interesting is one way of putting it, egotistical incoherent rant might be another. And where are these applicants meant to get their Phds from if they've never been to university?
If they are really serious about getting more diversity ( although the way he mocks the term suggests to me he isn't), there are practical steps you can take to do it. Frenzied rants aren't one of them.
Yeah, it's like a 2am blog post but if he is intent on shaking things up there and I think there is justification for that. But...scepticism...sure. We'll see how this actually plays out. I'm not sure he's looking for PHds for every role though. He's mocking the modern version of diversity that is rooted in identity and I would suggest superficial tickboxing exercises (white, black, female etc).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 19:50:17 GMT
Covering letter by someone on Twitter
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 0:44:16 GMT
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Post by tory on Feb 19, 2020 9:51:03 GMT
Yes?
Some bloke got sacked for some views that others found unreasonable.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 10:29:42 GMT
. . . . he's a formidable political thinker and operator . . . . something very interesting . . . .
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 10:34:01 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 10:36:12 GMT
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Post by tory on Feb 19, 2020 10:37:18 GMT
And?
The guy won Vote Leave and masterminded Boris's election.
The evidence suggests that he has some talent in the political sphere.
Whatever you may think, I'm intrigued and interested in his opinions. He's worked in the higher echelons of the Civil Service and obviously was dismayed by what he found. He set out to try and do something about it. Others may have thought "fuck this, I don't know what I could do to change things".
Whether he is right or wrong, only time can tell.
We live in a time where institutions grow to such an extent that they become self-perpetuating and very difficult to reform, like the NHS. All true Conservatives understand the need for reform as it is essential. Truly great political operators are often the ones who inhabit the spaces between the hard lines - and it is their ability to survive that makes them great. I don't know whether Cummings will last that long, but he obviously has some significant traction over Johnson that will probably mean he's around for a while.
What I like is his undoubted capacity for unconventional thinking. And we live in a world where that sort of thing is generally castigated.
There is that great line in the Leopard - "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 10:38:19 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 10:40:00 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 19, 2020 10:41:56 GMT
What I like is his undoubted capacity for unconventional thinking. And we live in a world where that sort of thing is generally castigated. It's castigated when it's seen to be damaging. Once again instead of worrying about people being stepped on, you're asking 'what shoe size was it?'
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Post by tory on Feb 19, 2020 11:16:18 GMT
It depends on whom the shoe is stepping on I guess. My interpretation of Cummings' direction is that he is seeking to provide those who voted for the Tories in the North with something concrete. He's clashed with the Treasury because fiscal conservatism, understandably, doesn't like big spending projects.
Does the North need HS2? Or does it need something else? The Tories are faced with a bit of a quandary really - they need to deliver something apart from Brexit, which I'd argue has now lost its symbolic power, at least because "they've got Brexit done".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2020 11:57:57 GMT
And? The guy won Vote Leave and masterminded Boris's election. The evidence suggests that he has some talent in the political sphere. Whatever you may think, I'm intrigued and interested in his opinions. He's worked in the higher echelons of the Civil Service and obviously was dismayed by what he found. He set out to try and do something about it. Others may have thought "fuck this, I don't know what I could do to change things". Whether he is right or wrong, only time can tell. We live in a time where institutions grow to such an extent that they become self-perpetuating and very difficult to reform, like the NHS. All true Conservatives understand the need for reform as it is essential. Truly great political operators are often the ones who inhabit the spaces between the hard lines - and it is their ability to survive that makes them great. I don't know whether Cummings will last that long, but he obviously has some significant traction over Johnson that will probably mean he's around for a while. What I like is his undoubted capacity for unconventional thinking. And we live in a world where that sort of thing is generally castigated. There is that great line in the Leopard - "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." He may well be a brilliant, imaginative thinker, but your post above ignores a crucial thing and that's he appears to have no emotional intelligence. This means he struggles to treat people with respect, makes poor judgement calls and can,t work within a team. This will cause the govt huge problems and my bit of "superforecasting" says he won't be there in a year's time.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 19, 2020 12:05:39 GMT
Aye. He’s probably on the spectrum
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Post by tory on Feb 19, 2020 12:08:55 GMT
He won Vote Leave and the election, suggesting that he can execute political campaigns - the sort of work that fundamentally has teamwork and respect for people at its heart. You can't win these things without them.
There is a coterie of people very loyal to him because of this.
However, as the maxim says "all political lives end in failure" and at some point I do think you're right in that he won't be there. His lack of accountability will be his achilles heel and the fact that he doesn't play the game like Alistair Campbell did will probably do for him. I don't think it'll be a year - it'll be the first big, proper crisis that I suspect will get him.
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