Will Dominic Cummings and his ‘weirdos and misfits’ really fix the civil service? | Jonathan Portes

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That ‘seismic’ overhaul Cummings plans for Whitehall? We’ve seen it all before | Jonathan Portes

The civil service is based on the “cult of the generalist”, mandarins who move far too frequently from job to job and are never in post long enough to be held accountable for the success or failure of the projects they manage. And they’re out of touch with the public. At the same time, the public sector undervalues scientists and other specialists.

 

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jillongovt Raj Tulsiani, Green Park on Cummings. Intelligent, disruptive, systems based thinker, blog a shot across civil service bows, ‘change coming’. Recruitment civil service biased, great people spend too much time protecting what‘s there, not on what could be there. Kate_M_Proctor

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That is a very good read jdportes

I can't wait. Our control system is totally fucked, needing root & branch overhaul. Time to drain Swamp-UK & purge liberalism!

BS from Guardian once again, trying to make out they know anything about government, the country or the people. You live in a bubble for ten hole laces & rest of Confused doc com lot!😂😂😂

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who gave this idiot so much power - certainly not the electorate

I guess he has shredded the Civil Service Code. Let’s see who survives, Cummings or the Cabinet Secretary.

Weird that he’s advertising for someone with a similar profile to what could be considered to be that of a serial killer- loner, doesn’t fit in etc

Remember Dan Dare.......the Mekon never wins!

Cummings looks weirder and weirder by the day. It's like the bit at the start of Return of the King where we watch Smeagol become Gollum.

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