Dominic Cummings speech at IPPR - The Hollow Men (2014) 

Could you try and communicate it a little bit. Give an example please

@#1CunningStunt Rofl ... yeah ... a) keep on throwing buzzwords around ... b) the current system REALLY DOESNT WORK and needs a reset.

And it has happened. A great shame for this country and an end to my support of the Johnson administration. It was a tragedy that coronavirus had to hit right at the moment when Dom had a chance to improve things.

@#1CunningStunt No, the reason for leaving the EU is that it's bureaucratic structure is too stagnant to respond quickly to change, especially given the types of people who have control (politicians with no understanding of the real world, technology, statistics, game theory etc) . Notice how during the pandemic, the EU was all but forgotten and member states returned to exclusively state-level policymaking - this shows the EU is poorly equipped to handle future disturbances like AGI. The main purpose of democracy is to ensure a peaceful succession of power between regimes. The current system does very little to deliver on the actual whims of the public, while also failing dreadfully to establish any long term policy plans to maximise the future potential of the country. What we see instead are short term, ineffective but highly publicised policy measures that have absolutely no coordination to a dedicated long term plan. A country that cannot plan for its future and anticipate change is as ignorant and unconscious as a baby, living in a perpetual present reality, with no understanding of cause and effect. We need to become a conscious civilisation, like we used to be, and that starts by appointing individuals to power who have the knowledge and skill sets required to plan and implement coordinated, intelligent, long term policy measures - these individuals are not well represented by our current MPs, who tend to be Oxford PPE graduates with minimal diversity in thought or education.

@@ARCANEmateCLAN your name says everything anyone would need to know about you. “Idiot”

Ed Miliband party leader from 2010 to 2015 David Cameron party leader from 2005 to 2016

@@Energyflash1979 this was in 2014...

@@Energyflash1979 He was speaking in reference to the 2015 GE.

He was the engineer of Cameron's demise.

@@RTR1879 Debatable. Cameron pretty much engineered his own demise without anyone's help.

@Nobby Heads Fair comment

A tragedy to see how it turned out

The more you dive in the shadier he gets, I recommend you dig deep.

Great that someone without a voter mandate pulls the strings of power. It's suspicious when someone without accountability takes authority behind the seat of power. Democracy may well be in its death throes. Or our modern interpretation of it bastardised beyond comprehension.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

The more i research this guy the nore impressed i am by him. A very intelligent man who we should thank for brexit being delivered.

@@brynleytalbot778 Idiot, too thick to even understand what he does.

lol Eugenics

And as Boris Johnson's chief advisor he's definitely shaking up the system a lot! By contributing to the further deepening of pre-existing inequalities and allowing coronavirus to rip through the population

Leftists will still destroy him, it’s already started, people think he’s evil for breaking dumb covid rules. He’s not accounted for how evil leftists are.

Hanniffy Dinn I know that man gets a character assassination for taking his kids to his mums. Whilst Diane Abbott is on record for saying Mao done more good than harm and also in the past campaigned for pedophilia to be an excepted liberal sexuality.

Tommy Fish it’s all planned mate. It’s no accident, the leftists own the media. They’ll be tapping his phones spying on him, trying to find anything to destroy him in the public eye.

@Yama Satru It's a bit like the Olympic team GB. Get the support structure and incentives right and watch the success.

Dominic running the country,,Thankfully 👏👏👏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

He went to Barnard Castle lol

Not me, I just think he is interesting. I don't believe he is in power. He is purely a utility to those who are in power. Even George Bush eventually moved Cheney to arms length. It would be cool if Cummings were able to do something. So far his appeal is really what his stats allow him to do in winning elections. He is a historian and has to hire quants. I don't see him as irreplaceable. His ideas on organizations are going to run into what bureaucracies are really designed to do, keep people like him outside of the gates. I don't know of any example where a person like him has moved a bureaucracy to where it was like a distributed market system, without bloodshed. And even then it only was moved to be someone else's bureaucracy.

Find him fascinating

Me

Just read his blog.

Read his blog. Lots of good stuff in there

I know. terrifying.

No celebrity host. No naked bosoms. No prize money, no flashing lights, no politically correct but offensive jokes. Just someone outlining his ideas, who know has the ear of a prime minister with a huge majority. What is interesting about that?

@@SAHBfan I suspect the audience for this kind of stuff is bigger than we think. Maybe the cull will spark a wider debate.

U tube is for cat videos.

@Futures I don't think thats very damaging. He's essentially right, I think there is a sea change with people like Boris and Gove. Boris did a fantastic job of running London eons better than the current fuckwit who seems hell bent on not just destroying London but dragging as much of western culture into the gutter behind him.

@Futures Do you read the articles you link or only the headlines? Cummings went on to say that Boris had come to realise how important it was to deliver on what he has promised the poorest people. You don't have to care about a certain group to do what is right for them and the country. The article you linked clearly states that Boris is putting the money into the NHS and is trying to speed up the money Theresa may promised so it's effects can be seen on the frontlines. I notice the article doesn't seem to mention the exact details of this speech by Cummings, other than saying it was at a conference in 2017. I find this suspicious as it may be a nice bit of quote mining which in context may suggest something rather different. For example if he made this point and went on to say the Conservatives need to change and Boris understands this, then it puts a rather different complexion on the quote doesn't it. I suggest you learn to think for yourself rather than just swallowing what a journalist writes.

@Futures My assumptions were correct as you simply quoted an article who's headline is rather at odds with the full story. Cummings seems to be turning the Conservatives into a party which can capitalize on the commonalities between the rich and poor, rather like Disraeli did many years ago. You also failed to respond to the point I made about someone seeing the merit in helping a group they do not actually care about. I agree that every party all the way back to Blair has failed to properly invest in the NHS, and of course it was Labour who took the PFI scheme introduced by Thatcher and massively expanded it, putting billions in the poclets of some very wealthy people and ultimately costing the tax payer more than it should have. However the largest problem has been the sheer volume of people we have allowed into the country. You can invest all the money you like but when the country see's a population increase of millions within 20 years, well the infrastructure just cannot handle it. I would be interested to know in which department you work. If you think the situation is so awful then why not blow the whistle? Grab every document you can and publish it. That would be doing a wonderful public service.

@Futures "the so called additional money for the NHS is like so much political talk empty waffle" - this is true of any money for the NHS, if you 10x the budget it'll still be empty waffle. The more money you throw at the NHS it invents entirely new ways of pissing it away, that's not a slight on doctors, nurses, or even the management even; it's a reality of the system. It needs fundamental reform is the reality. Giving the NHS money without forcing it to work better is pissing in the wind. The only way we've been able to get it to work properly in the past is by holding back funding.

@Futures We haven't had a targets-driven culture at a national level for years in the UK. There are a lot of performance indicators but that's something else entirely. Think we have to give the government time to get bedded in before we pass judgement, personally.

Please. You're impressed by a few big words and concepts and think he has all the answers. You're a sheep. Enjoy getting fleeced.

"10 to the power 80 is approximately the number of atoms in the universe" - LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Yep, you're a fool.

@@hieroglyph321 That number is about right.

@@hieroglyph321 lol...he uses normal words 🤔...am I just a bit smarter than average? Or are you dumber?

Cretins like you truly annoy me. The man is a shit head. He spouts vacuous nonsense. Boris Johnson is a puppet to this man’s stupid, dangerous crap.

Cummings hired a eugenicist. Not seen that in the civil service for a few years

@Donald Scott if he wasn't hired, how come he resigned? What context makes eugenics acceptable?

@Donald Scott yeah he thought outside the box. Not outside the box of PCness Outside the box of rationalism.

Sadly HR in public sector are obsessed by diversity and we are getting far more in senior roles that are not white and male. This means the best are leaving as working for someone far less able than yourself is terrible.

@@terrid6349 think you're wrong there mate. When has white and male been any sort of way to judge ability.

@Nobby Heads yes, it's going perfect, I'm quite happy. It's ideal. Brilliant in fact. What a great opportunity to pit people against government and tech them more about who does what and how and who thinks they are above the law, it's a great social experiment to observe. Guy is an ass, who wants to be effective, that's a great thing to have had, because the general public can learn about asses, clever asses and clever ass behaviour, dumb puke Boris Johnson and hopefully society will become intolerant of politicians with double standards and cover ups. All of this, let's admit, isn't possible without an effective dishonourable nutcase in charge of the prime minister who fails publicly. Also on a separate note, better have scientific clever ass than dumb ass ;)

Bit like the banks then..

Well you can get voted out but its not like politics has a free market type system of parties to choose from.

@@courtneyhackshaw3420 I mean there are different political parties to choose from but when you talk about the "free market". It firstly is such an abstraction & secondly more importantly it NEVER has actually existed. You name the market & it will not conform ontologically to being defined as a "free market". Simply because markets especially within the confines of Capitalism tends towards monopolies, the finance sector was a prime example of this. The 'Too big to fail' idea was an example of this. Financial institutions becoming monopolies & too big, to the point where their failure would result in financial calamity for the entire system. It required gov stepping in to save it.

@james mcbride true but we're just going to go with the flow. Corbyn's been `dealt with`, Royal family/Queen appears to be looking to cut back, esp Randy Andy, USA can have the actress (huh!) Markel back & Harry & the kid, MSM have had their `Remain` hopes dashed, right now & with The Boris as our front man & Cummings being the brains - UK is looking like it's heading in the right -Brexit- direction. Just gotta allow Dominic to sort out that awful woman Sturgeon of ScotNats by increasing the size of each constituency so they don`t have such an overinflated representation in Westminster and nothing else to do but bother us the English in Westminster. In Scotland one constituency equals, 20 sheep, couple of old sheep dogs & a few village people - who are entitled to one whole Member of Parliament - it's crazy!!!

shirwan Finally someone who see the free market as just another guise for monopolies. The theoretical basis seems to point to Darwin's selection of the fittest but this fitted genetics but not the messy human influence on business and manipulation by social influence within closed networks. A free market gives the illusion of free entry by a fitter provider but is actually a lie. In politics it's evident that one set of values promoted in slightly more appealing ways wins elections and gains power. Hence New Labours rise to power on Conservative values. If that's the future then democracy doesn't exist other than in an ideological sense because power is only attainable by mimicking each other. That's the result of Cummings influence on this election. He's destroyed democracy and now wants to destroy its systems. Hardly a sane idea.

They’d feel pretty cheated if boris decided to sack him then

Any of your friends or relatives died during the push for "herd immunity"?

@@gt4les Who's push for herd immunity? That was put out there by the CSO after he was asked a question. He put it on the table that was it along with many other things. It was never a policy.

@Nobby Heads You seem absolutely certain. Were you in the room at the time?

I loved that, they are not chuckling now. They are sitting up and taking notice

36:08 not getting control of no. 10 now Dom

He is saying the first thing he would do, "if I ever get control of number 10" is to create a way for people who haven't been elected to become ministers, right? I mean, democracy is awful, but it is still the best thing we have, surely?

@#1CunningStunt it's not even hidden. He talks about beneficial crises

As he points out, the system is designed to fail regardless of who is on top

Even small, lean, technology based companies can be consumed by management who talk about things being done whilst neglecting doing their job. There's a law that says half the work of an organisation is done by the square root of the number of its staff. With the one company I worked for in mind, the 5 staff that fit this description only 1 still works for the company. These were the people that kept the company running and extended the technology all to be removed in favour of the talkers.

You need to have an open mind to "see the problem" ... and BUSINESSMEN are just as bad as LAWYERS ... and IDEOLOGUES like Labour.

@@michaelhicks3030 I once proclaimed that "the law of inertia also applies to bureaucracies" ... and the larger they get the slower they can react to something. That was maybe 15-20 years ago ... before I even woke up to reality ...

Hierarchies are the most dysfunctional indicator in organisations. The more they increase the more Peter Thiel's statement applies. The bigger they are the easier it is to hide incompetence and advance away from decisions leaving others to pick up the chaos. Once high enough up you construct support networks below you to conceal your incompetence based on reciprocal support for theirs. Most organisations are dysfunctional by design. I doubt any exist based on the pure principle of benefitting all to an equitable degree other than those in their infancy where mutuality of benefit drives expansion and success. At some growth point dysfunctional is simply a sign of expansion beyond ability and often goes uncorrected because size covers incompetency. So perhaps governments unconstrained expansion into everything makes it the dysfunctional organisation you feel it is.

@@inquiring8059 As I said, he's being briefed against by people with a lot to lose to anyone who'll listen. They hope people like you will listen and somehow conclude that a man who took his wife to his parent's house to be looked after as she was showing symptoms, is 'totally immoral'. Strange how hatred can distort people's thinking.

@@inquiring8059 Ah. Someone who knows all about me without ever meeting me. I've never met you either (I hope) but judging by the grammatical errors and generally aggressive and dogmatic tone I'd guess at either a Russian troll or Corbyn fan. Good luck with that.

Dominic Cummings is spot on with his analysis of civil service processes and good for him to expose the shameful non blame culture........ Sometimes people's performance is shit and they should suffer the consequences and it's usually some twat working half an hour a week but moaning the loudest 🎭

it's because he's accumulated alot of enemies over the years. Politicians and the Media are very close and they feed off eachother. When the Media say "my sources", they're almost always Ministers and MP's. Dominic led the campaign to keep us outside the Euro currency and succeeded. A campaign to exit the EU and succeeded. The campaign to get Boris elected and succeeded.... There's alot of people now who are screaming into their hands.

kenrotheram, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister didn't have an element of truth, it was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as discovered many years later.

Chattonlad I must open my box set again.

@@kenrotheram Somewhere on youtube there's a documentary about the source of their information, it's pure gold.

Chattonlad A similar series could be done on Ofsted which actually prejudges schools based on SATs. What a waste of money. In Finland they have a curriculum check for 10%.of schools at the end of primary (English) and 15 (Maths). Teachers rarely leave the profession. If results are poor then inspectors visit and discuss how continual assessment is working and how extra money might help. The Head in Finland interviews teachers each term to discuss pupil progress and any involvement in national curriculum initiatives. He knows each teacher well. In the UK the Head probably only knows some of his/her staff by sight in a large comprehensive. There is no middle management (Heads of Department) in Finland. There little point in wasting money on a huge Civil Service bureaucracy. Investigations show that SATS don’t drive up results at first. It seems that teachers need to drill pupils for months on the new type of questions and the results are better the following year. We seem to protect a system which promotes cramming rather than switching to continuous assessment each term which puts knowledge into long term memory..It works for Finland and Estonia - See the PISA rankings.

kenrotheram The educational system does need reform but across the entire sector. Education should return to the basics and higher levels of the fundamental basics. It's there to educate not supply business ready employees. It's the responsibility of business to impart skill sets to their employees not for education to supply them free of charge to them. Basics have decreased as educational ideologies took over. Our systems led the world till political interference ruined them. Labour tried to eliminate grammar schools. Conservatives did eliminate polytechnics. Both crushed good systems. Then the fiasco of student loans to exponentially increase graduate numbers into non existent graduate positions. The bell curve of intelligence isn't going to be skewed by political intervention. It's fairly fixed. Constant testing isn't beneficial. Good teachers focused on class equality of opportunity eliminate the need for constant tests. Are teachers as good as they once were? Do they have the time to engage adequately? Have the data obsessed, like Cummings, robbed us of real efficacy? Educators are there to educate. It's obvious education has been subjected to political ideology for far too long. And business owners have manipulated it to their short term goals. Both need to leave the field to those who understand it and hopefully love imparting knowledge to a willing engaged audience. Learning is for life, not some career goal, which is something we've lost sight of. No wonder we're descending the league tables of the world.

The problem of bureaucrats he states for Whitehall exists for EVERY bureaucracy on the planet. The reason is actually simple: in the beginning you start with few rules, some ideals and great motivation. This gets bogged down more and more and more by new rules which are being added because POLITICIANS WANT TO BE SEEN AS DOING SOMETHING! Thus, instead of "not fixing what isnt broken" they start to FIDDLE ... I have been collecting material on the grooming gangs since january and there have been about ZERO bureaucrats/police who have been punished for failing to protect the girls! Only ONE Councilor "immediately stepped down" after the scandal was released in his city.

Agree. I am surprised at myself but the man has qualities. The unresolved problem though is democracy. I think Dom Cum has very little time for it

@@lawrenceandersonburley2734 his contempt for it shines like a beacon.

Terri D You’re not wrong there! The brain is the most diverse and complex system on the planet .... that’s proper diversity. (Not skin colour, disability etc ... although diversity in all the variables is a good thing in my opinion). But everyone has strengths and weaknesses ... and cognitive diversity when out together, can be a wonderful thing to harness the strengths. However, the most important thing is to recognise those strengths and weaknesses ... so that you can either learn to improve the weaknesses, or use others to work together. However, cognitive capacity is often limited, especially in modern times due to the complexity of the world we live in, especially with social media ... and that creates less cognitive capacity to recognise ... and to become efficient, creates an urge to become more simplistic ... stereotypical ... and diversity often reduces! The most obvious arena where this can be seen is Politics .... where quite simply, as DC says/implies ... most/all MPs are much more comfortable at thinking and talking ... and really crap at listening and understanding. Examples: You’ll never get a straight answer from a Politician! DC totally ‘gets’ it ... but as the consequence, the weakness is the ‘sales’ pitch ... hence needs public front-man .... but together, a potentially powerful combination!

a) Maggie Thatcher did A LOT OF THINGS WRONG ... knighted Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith DESPITE PEDO WARNINGS, created the "public order act 1986" ... the first step for the current hate-speech laws (Tony Blair just took her law and applied it to electronic communications), ... b) my country of Germany is currently being ruled by a physicist called Angela Merkel and EVERYTHING she did was wrong. She even allowed our own "nuclear desaster" (in a nuclear waste dump) to happen ... by signing off a terrible law while she was minister for ecology under Helmut Kohl ...

@The505Guys I wanted to avoid using the verb "to think" after the noun "thinking". I used "feel" because it is often employed as a synonym of "to think". You are right to point out that this common usage is not accurate, although I doubt my comment caused any confusion among native English speakers.

May as well make him king of the world. Oh no sorry that’s the job his mate boris wants

His mate Boris is doing a grand job! Just watch this space!

@Nobby Heads yes the comment, has aged well. He is still doing an excellent job!

Yea we surely do -DDDDDDDDD

funguseater40 what a fuckin cretin you are😡

Please Please Please, read between the lines.

@@lon3don what are you reading between the lines?

@@jw8559 good question. To reform government and the civil service as he would intend would need to be done with great sensitivity. Cummings has proved he has none of this. For a minister to resign because of the demands of a political advisor for him to dismiss staff that he has chosen and trusts, is very much a case of the tail wagging the dog. This is just one example of many.

We have a system filled with politicians who know how to play the game well enough to serve themselves. But are at the same time shit at playing the game they're paid to play, serving their constituents and country well.

Why do you believe business leaders are any more competent than politicians? They both have the same manipulative intent to win at all costs and reap the majority benefit. It's facile to think that business people are any more suited to politics than ordinary people. Given the sycophantic nature of selection by the party they're probably more able to be selected and this is evident in the Conservative Party, their natural stomping ground of self interest. If politicians viewed government as a career rather than something to do after running a business that guaranteed a gong if successful, or access to networks after service that would financially benefit their business interests, then I'd see your point. We seem to give successful business people a cult celebrity status. If they're grandiose superior above the rest of us then they're perfect companions to politicians in their narcissistic personality traits. Success in running a business doesn't equal success in running the country. It's a fools paradise to make that leap. The skill set is vastly different. And that's why so much management in companies is unfit for purpose. I agree wholeheartedly that MPs should be apprenticed into the role before they get elected so they're suitable for the positions they'll hold. But I don't believe business people have those skills because they ran successful enterprises. There are many incompetent business owners but competent workers conceal their insufficiency to maintain their livelihoods. Thick people succeed too, often on the backs of bright employees. Alan Sugar comes to mind with his brilliance of employing bright people who couldn't see beyond large salaries that were insignificant to the return he got. Don't be deluded by success into thinking they're bright. Often they're simply survival oriented just like politicians come the election.

Oh, come on. Isn't that just a tiny bit naive? Surely many excellent people have no aspiration to wealth whatsoever? Even Churchill spent his entire life struggling with money, and would surely have been pauperised had he not been so prolific.

So we should have a Parliament full of business men or women right?

LOOOL .... you mean someone who can hold a conversation? You should up your standards! Good luck!

You mean privatise it?

Euro Doubt Privatisation means profits. How can a bankrupt public service provide a profit? If there's a profit in there it's poor existing management that's to blame and disastrous policies made for political benefits. The total depoliticisation of essential services must be the primary objective of government but it relies on tugging the electorates heartstrings every time an election comes. It's efficiency that's the key to a better and cheaper public service. But politics ruins that process so private enterprise free of those chains would do better. It's not a good idea to hand a profit away when the issue is political machinations that have endured for decades and ripped the heart out of our services.

MJ Sullivan He should know.

High praise, from him.

I don't think Cummings' advice so far have resulted in unnecessary and ongoing conflict and pointless loss of so many lives

Evil only because he didn’t agree with him. And “evil” coming from campbell is extreme pot kettle

steve packer It may/may not have now .... the minutes from SAGE might reveal that.

Simply by doing it illegally...

@@TheBloodsuger150 Please tell us how so we can go to the police.....

dulls where have you been living, google “leave campaign broke the law” and try not to live in such an echo chamber next time.

@@TheBloodsuger150 Was he charged?

dulls the punishment was a trivial fine, but the fact that he won it illegally is unambiguous. How could you not know that?

do`h hope you have no children nor grandchildren_ coz section 4 - I WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDER`S me gov

Who killed granddad.

He'll go the way of Bannon..watch

When was that? He's a shiseter ......fraud! He's not elected by the people. He's an appointment by a PM who should have sacked him after he broke his own Covid-19 advice to stay put!

@@steffanhoffmann8937 i think your confusing the facts with those of Prof Ferguson, the man behind the model and the advice, who not only broke his own advice but cuckolded his friend in doing so. Cummings took the sensible course of shielding his autistic son by taking up his family's offer of a safe place to self-isolate - which, with the press camped outside his front door every morning, clearly wasnt London. Youre the fraud, Cummings on the other hand is The Real Thing, and will keep his position and his honour intact. The press are acting like a wolf pack, have cooked up this whole shitstorm out of spite. Spite for a man who doesnt court them just as he doesnt court the civil service flunkeys he talks about here. Not that the likes of you would have had the patience to sit through it, youre on safe ground attacking the man rather than his message.

At the government’s daily press conference on 24 March, England’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries spoke of the “exceptional circumstance” of an unwell adult unable to care for a young child. “A small child clearly is a vulnerable individual, so in this case, although we are encouraging everybody to stay in their own households - that’s the unit with the same risk of exposure - clearly if you have adults who are unable to look after a small child, that is an exceptional circumstance,” Dr Harries said. He didn't break the advice.

It's frustrating to see the media portray him as a villain. Then again, the same is true for most people who speak the truth openly.

@@ARCANEmateCLAN They always struggle with someone who tries to see things empirically. It's harder to pin them into a "right" or "left" camp.

He's very clever but what he's not saying is the political impact of the changes he'd make to these structures. Who is going to do well out of the old checks and balances being destroyed to make way for the problem solving abilities of free markets?

Shit We've a theorist that hasn't ran anything in charge. I've worked in large organisations where individuals like this convince the people actually in charge that they have all the answers. Never ends well.

Britain wake up, listen and support DC

Irony is UK project management certification and orthodoxy comes from - large public projects... think that through.

@@djphineart Modern project management dates from the second world war - D-Day and the like.

Lack of project management skill isnt the problem ... DOGMATIC adherence to RULES is ... AND the "networking" where one bad apple protects the next bad apple. Managing a project shouldnt be a problem ... for anyone who is able to "make a to-do-list".

No ... a) you will still have to do paperwork so you might as well do it all on paper, b) apps dont work when the power is down, c) digital storage media dont last as long as paper ... Stop fetishising new technology ... its NOT the saviour ... especially if THE MINDSET BEHIND IT IS THE SAME!

Not a metaphor - a reference to quack science and it's disastrous consequences during Mao's Great Leap Forward: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace

I have been astonished to discover that in re the NHS (universally admired, once, but copied by no-one) that UK has made no effort at all to look at what works in EU countries, eg France and Austria, and copy the elements that would work in UK.

Bureaucrats seem to be the same the world over, don't they? `arse covering` - I bet there is even a module on it in their uni courses. There was (in all but name), in social services....

@@msteen26 Huh yes, I wonder though if we were starting again, would we want to use the same model? That could be Dominic's next project! How old is he? Does he have enough career years left?

@@daisyhobbs7500We wouldn't start with this model now. The European project began in 1950, when things looked different eg many were hungry. DM will be relentless, since that is his character. He is maybe a little autistic, like Greta Thunberg, though not so young. We will see.

That must be infuriating. If I've understood it right it sounds like 'cut & paste' laws ,& regs in the hope they've not missed anything out. A bit like the way we've just imported EU regs & laws which seem to have, in some cases just been overlaid onto our existing, often already adequate laws! But we have so many political bodies taking bribes from EU to do their bidding over here. Awful, awful corrupt system which is awash with other country's money! Can't wait to be free from the cunning crooked lot.

And more recently (and significantly) Lord Frost...

Karl P agreed have you used the NHS recently ....

Karl P The public sector needs reforming to match its private sector counterpart in efficiency but not to generate profit, the reason it gets privatised, but to decrease its cost base through efficiency which is best achieved by eliminating swathes of management trying to make it like the private sector. Pensions must be addressed along with pay scales. It's fine to benefit one way but not both ways which seems the public sector way. Also a balanced approach to worker engagement in roles needs to be reviewed so that excess employees are discouraged and that fluctuating requirements can be met through private enterprise involvement. It's a balanced approach, public and private, that's required to make it totally efficient. Properly managed it could bring services up to the levels required. Another solution would be for the public sector to offer private paid services from its over staffing to ensure there is no waste. For cash strapped councils this could be a lifeline.

@@brynleytalbot778 I see the Public Service as potentially being a relatively elite branch of the economy (small in terms of overall national employment) but orchestrating a myriad of contracts on behalf of the government/public. Typically these are called Service Level Agreements. If KPIs/performance measures are included in these agreements, the "private" contractors only see one avenue to make money. *Perform* Or get penalised and/or lose the contract to some other eager contractor. It is the main priority of the government (national or local) to establish what the objectives and targets are. And put them into the KPIs/performance measures. If *they* stuff up, the contractor should be compensated on an agreed schedule of rates/contract termination payment basis and not be left twisting in the breeze just because a bunch of councillors can't assign internal blame.

Futures - you can see in this video he likes to exaggerate to make points. That video where he made the ‘poor people’ point was talking about the historic problem the Tory party have on perception, and that some (not all) MPs may not care about poor people. I’ve only started looking into this guy after election but listen to some of his comments in this video: bloated pay in the private sector, lack of regulation in financial markets, our best talents in maths and physics going into high frequency trading because of perverse incentives. If these comments were pulled out and put on the Guardian you would think Corbyn said them himself. It seems this guy has very strong views on how to make the UK a better, fairer place.

@Futures Are you a native English speaker? You realise, he is pointing out that many Tories don't care about the poor or the NHS but that he is advising Tories like Gove and Johnson to care! I care about the poor but I believe in hand ups, not hand outs.

@Scott Walker So would you have preferred the real Totalitarianism of the European Union instead? Tip toeing forward on it's toxic agenda. No thank you, I prefer GB like most Britons.

Futures nobody intelligent believes anything in the guardian you spastic!

BS

They dont care about facts ... and run on 100% FEELINGS-BASED programs.

Enlighten us oh wise one

@Jamie L Which Cummings is ill-equipped to organise.

Media 🐑

....tumbleweed....

@Nobby Heads oh dear...

@Nobby Heads nope... but you've wound someone up by the sounds of it

@Nobby Heads free speech is a beautiful thing, even if it means saying a man smells of poo and wee, instead of forming a credible argument 😆

Psy Skeptic Agree ... I think karma has caught up with him this time. Excellent theorist and campaigner, clearly intelligent and many strengths ... but everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Interesting during his conference that he admitted that he had made mistakes during the pandemic response so far ...

@@ModelRailway It's realistic and honest of him to admit to mistakes. Who does't make mistakes? Yes, a great advisor to Boris and karma doesn't come into it so long as there is sufficient (party wide) determination to fight the machine.

Sounds like the problem in your organisation is that they didn't also cut the academics.

@@73BigMC they froze hiring on academics as they hired clever idiot managers like you at larger salaries, and I encourage you to gather evidence for your theories (eg class sizes, etc, etc)

@@73BigMC what a f*ing mean spirited anonymous comment. If you have a mirror in your house: look into it.

The video originally was only titled 'Hollow Men', I found the video a few months ago and messaged the channel to advise them to put his name in the video title, resulting in about 20k views in the past couple of months. The algorithm is still not all that smart.

@@oisin372 it seems in this case you are the algorithm's intelligent sidekick, my good man.

These intellectual discussions were ahead of their time. People are only just beginning to catch up.

Agree but it's very useful to be reminded, so vividly, isn't it?

That’s like trying to pull an 18 stone pig by the tail from it’s slops

He was concentrating on the wrong sort of PPE, how ironic. Perhaps had he used common sense (and Personal Protective Equipment instead of Politics Philosophy and Economics), he would not have contracted COVID19 and made that disastrous trip to the North East and that impudent presentation in the Garden of No 10 Downing Street.

Straight after Farage gets one.

Credit to Boris for employing him however.

You better hope he doesn’t do a Dave and sack him then

This aged well

how do you feel now after corona, loosing value of pounds, economic crises due stupid pandemic and corona acts?

Highly questionable

Sub par at best

@@therub2191 Your posh