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You misunderstood what democracy is. It's just a system of law. The overarching concept is to live in a society, you must accept and obey its laws. If you don't, emigrate or leave and live alone. Imagine some immigrant (like me) pick and choose what laws I like to respect and which I don't. What...

OK, he is not your guy. I will accept that. Cummings doesn't understand democracy and government as much as he thinks he does. Government is the machine that we need to keep running, in good times and bad times, even when it doesn't work properly. The important point to remember is government is...

OK. I watched a few interviews of your guy, Cummings, and also refreshed my history lessons on the 1840s and the 1848 revolution. Cummings fancies himself a new architect of democracy with a f... you attitude to the establishment. He is already so myopic that he cannot see beyond his own echo...

It's just a silly test for marketing. The important point is EV tech is maturing fast because the car market is ready for the switch over to EVs in the next 2-3 years. Recently, if you watch tv ads for EVs, all the new EVs are equipped with long range, fast charging capable batteries. CATL which...

A little bit. I think he is or would like to be more like Steve Bannon.

I have no knowledge of the European history of the 1840s nor the deep state, TBH. Cummings cited Klemens von Metternich who was of course one of the most important politicians of the period, it will take some time to make sense of the context. Still, I wonder where did I see people who wear...

You succeeded. You have always been so factual for years and years

Calling his Lishui controller a turd is totally unjustified. I thought you are better than that.

So those failures* have absolutelynothing to do with half baked project objectives and milestones, changes in political leaderships, public finance and regulatory obstacles then? * such as Osborne's Northern Powerhouse, HS2, Priti Patel's Rwanda scheme etc

so he's got a good track record on political wins in the 2016-2021 era. His notable claim to fame was the 3 word slogan 'take back control'. That proves is he's a good political hack. That does not qualify him for the role of reforming the Civil Service or government machine though. He may have...

Could you sum up the differences between the old lishui setup and your OSF implementation beside the change of LCD?

You and I have got some proven managerial skills over our 50 year working life but Cummings? What managerial skills has he got? He's got a degree in History! He's good with languages too, I give you that but would you trust him to manage your savings? His education and career past has not...

Cummings talked about how to reform the Civil Service as if he were Sir Humphries in 'Yes, Prime Minister'. That guy in the Grenfell saga is not typical of the caliber Cummings was talking about and he already admitted that it was a mistake. Much more than Cummings ever admitted to anything...

Did SW crash with his Haibike?

I did address this point previously. Ministers can BS voters on TV but Civil servants have to follow due process. We'll have to expand our judiciary system to put a lot more of them through court where statistically about 75% of them win against the home office.

that has been our system for hundreds of years, as seen in 'Yes Minister'. What's new? He just blames someone else when his/their half baked projects fail. Would Cummings be a better Sir Humphries? I doubt that. He came from the same old fashoined British system: private schools, Oxbridge...

Cummings should know better. He's got a good education so he should have done better than the usual right wing approach, blame the foreigners. That is: 1) this is a crisis, we must act now 2) This issue will threaten our security 3) We have a solution and it's very simple if only we get given a...

Those mistakes are made by ministers, not those working and following orders under them. You place a few people with low IQ at the wheel of the Titanic, what would you expect? This is a typical excuse of those who should not lead in the first place. It's like Trump blaming the head of Bureau of...

it's a broad subject. I would like to know the prompt you put into your AI. Let's address the first point via the examples you provided. Civil service we talk about here is essentially Whitehall staff. They work directly under their political masters. Their job is to deploy the ideas of their...

I did watch some of that video by the way. I suspect that you and I will never agree on the necessity that civil servants must serve ministers of the day a) apolitically and b) within the confines of the laws because they have the knowledge of laws and the expertise on how things are run while...