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no grip of power, the Cabinet Office a dumpster fire and no No10 plan to fix it, No10 given the run-around by Whitehall as soon as the PM’s office switches from one disaster to the next
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no governing plan for the NHS, crime, the war, productivity growth, R&D or anything else — just nightmarish Treasury budget/Spending Review processes that vandalise long-term building and entrench the dangerous rot of critical national capabilities
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no message
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no serious polling, communication or political machine (just incoherent jabbering to the media per the Tory model of ‘communication’ for decades)
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no political strategy worth spit (current approach is indistinguishable from ‘annoy everyone’)
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a humiliatingly awful level of argument from No10 on every major issue (reduced to defending idiot MPs telling people to ‘fuck off’ out of frustration that their own policy, which officials and their own spads told them couldn’t work, has turned into the predicted fiasco)
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political disintegration
This was funny:
The first problem with Cummings is he had his shot at implementing his theory of government and got outsmarted and outmanouevered by people who were, according to him, idiots. This doesn’t say much about his abilities.
The second problem with Cummings is that, again, according to him there exists a cadre of people who are thousands of times better at managing things than the rest of us. But it’s clear from the first problem that he can’t be one of them.
So, by his own logic, there are at least two reasons we shouldn’t listen to him.
I see nothing in the blog to make me reevaluate this position. All the stuff he’s right about is stuff everyone knows and has known for ages. He proproses no actual solutions. It’s pie in the sky right wing contrarian Leninism, as usual. ‘Found a new party, win an election, then dissolve the winning party’! Your average teenage anarchist has a better theory of change.