2025-07-25
The signs are all around us, visible by everyone on the outside who cares to look, but invisible to those on the inside who do not care to look at stuff of which they disapprove.
It has become steadily apparent through the sterling efforts of those who do dare to look and don't like what they see, and are prepared to do what they can about it, that the whole edifice of our national institutions, and especially of our "national treasures", are rotting from the inside, are no longer fit for purpose, and will, failing some sort of magical reformation, shortly collapse with "consequences that no man may foresee".
Of course the world has seen these sorts of collapse before, but this time is different - its global scale dwarfs the precedents of recent centuries (according to "approved history" anyway, although Ukraine may disagree).
Dominic Cummings has had the opportunity to see the whole from both the outside and the inside, so perhaps is uniquely qualified to comment.
"Pitt had real meetings in No. 10 Downing Street, not the fake scripted meetings now, where the conclusions are written by officials before the meeting ever happens. That’s not a parody from Westminster. That is actually the process for how modern government works"
"The wiring diagram of power inside the system means that it’s the Cabinet Secretary who is called first when the bombs go off and when crises happen. And the Cabinet Secretary decides which ministers are allowed to see what"
" ... the characters with real power are the unelected officials"
"In the old days, ministerial responsibility was genuine. It became fake"
He is also both able and willing!
