The meritocracy has had its day. How else to explain the rise of Dido Harding? | Nick Cohen

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Public service jobs once went to people who knew what they were doing. Boris Johnson would rather promote a courtier

programme. Nobody “was expecting to see the really sizeable increase in demand that we’ve seen over the course of the last few weeks,” she said.

 

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Looking like a Kakistocracy!

Evidence enough that Harding isn’t doing her job for England and Wales

How can someone who was at the helm of TalkTalk when one of the biggest security breaches happened and who is now in charge of the shambles of Test and Trace still be in a job?

Why pick on a woman it has been going on forever amongst most male politicians for centuries !!

Nick Cohen Nick Cohen did his bit to ensure the Tories got in. So own it, Nick.

How about the 'old boys network' working for members of the establishment !

Disgraceful appointment and if she says she eants to serve the country again hand me the sick bucket

Time to get qualified people to do the job not mates.

Dulce et decorum est pro Pretia mori - very clever

Says the LiberalismIsAMentalDisease organisation that defends and enacts on quotas and lists in the ridiculous notion of gender and race promotion above ability..DoFuckOff

Dido and Hancock ...two over promoted egos whose names each have a telling missing consonant.

Britain has never been a meritocracy. It has always run on class, the right school and who your family know

The dangerous myth of 'meritocracy' has been known as a lame-brained cybertopian delusion pushed by the likes of Peter Thiel for well over a decade now, why are you still addressing it like it's a good idea?

Dont you mean Baroness Dido Harding.didoharding . Off with your head!

Its never been about what you know, only about who you know. Always has been.

Yeah it’s definitely Dido Harding that proves that meritocracy has had its day...not the absolute shit show of successive politicians and governments we’ve had in this country for years now.

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She's done a truly appalling job

dopes like Nick are belatedly realising there never was one

I thought that was Michael J Fox for a second

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