Tracey, my dad has been in the NHS for over 30 years he was a banned 4 and they demoted him down to a band 1. He’s really good at his job And the management hate him for it 😂
Exactly the same story as mine, but they made me sick, really sick and i have never worked since, career ending at 39. Whistleblowers are always treated this way, i am part of a group, all whistleblew all had their careers ended on the NHS.
I'm 64. Haven't had a TV licence for 20 years. Same time I stopped reading/listening to MSN. Saw Dom on the Chris Williamson show. Totally changed my view of Dom. Have listened to quite a few of Dom's interviews since. Given me a really good insight into how government works or doesn't for that matter and what needs to be done to fix it.
I agree. The media absolutely ripped him to shreds because he doesn't follow The Narrative. I was a long time reader of his blog and knew his insights were invaluable. Very much worth listening to.
@@CaldonianDude He's a plain and blunt speaking Northerner (came from just up the road from me. In fact the first night club I went into, the Clute, back in 75, was owned by his pop). Just wanted to get the job done and put things right. Do some good for his country. No way was the establishment going to stand for that and so had to crucify him.
Ironically its not a huge salary now, and thats why the quality is so low. Same goes for civil service, they are paying 2/3 less for some roles in tech sector vs private sector.
To keep up the charade of a democracy. Now since Starmer and his reaction to the Southport riots there isn't any pretence that we live in anthing but a tyranny.
Yeah, they need to increase their wages, wages of the PM and the PM needs a proper team: chef, PT, hair and makeup, cleaner, nurse, two personal secretaries and whatever Whitehall team he has. They should be looked after like the President.
I skipped past this a couple of times today whilst looking for something to listen to while working. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I will certainly listen to Dom again. Thanks guys.
Fascinating insight into the sad state of our country. Like him or not he is a deep thinker who is offering root cause of many of the cancers that are rotting our country, prosperity and society.
@@janwhite6038 I agree that he is intelligent and does offer insight, but at the same time I feel he sometimes comes across as being slightly egotistical and having a savior complex, as though if only he was in charge, that he could resolve every problem. I don't think it's that simple, but I agree that on some issues he obviously has insight and ideas.
Cummings reminds me of Stalin’s Beria. The guy is an unhinged narcissist psychopath - taking of purges and worshipping techno billionaires Musk and Thiel. Agreed he would be more efficient to expedite a future dystopia. Funny how these acolytes supposedly the brightest in the land don’t see through it 😮
Cummings is a genius on assessing the political landscape..like Steve Bannon in US..if Reform have any ambition they get him on board to guide next election
Gerard Batten aswell. Other independent candidates should work together the weaken the torries and labour. We need lots of parties creating lots of manifetos so we can show the real alternative in policies and show that parties are part of the problem.
DT will indeed finish 'draining the swamp' this time in office.Our swamp clearing is now 'on hold'for a while but Starmers period in office will only hasten the necessity to get it done .We dont have the time here though due to the paucity of the right kind of people in positions of power due to our Parlementary election process.Hence we are condemned to the continual decline of all areas of life 'as we once knew it'.With the snobbery in the corridors of power and media (I notice it here with the mention of T Robinson)I expect little change.
'Fake immigration.' First time I've heard it referred to that way. Sums it up in two words and you know exactly what he means. Best definition so far 👏
You don't need to be a 'visionary'' to know that the entire system is wholly dysfunctional and corrupt. This is why no decent or competent person will have anything to do with it. But it's fair to say that he is the only person with any experience of the system who has the integrity to call it out for what it is.
Shame he didn’t have the vision to go to specsavers for an eye sight test, instead of driving to Barnard Castle. It shows his level of hubris and contempt for the rest of us that he thought we would believe such a ridiculous story.
Thank you for this Q&A session. I follow and listen to Dominic at every opportunity I can. I'm a 63 year old woman, I haven't turned my TV on for over a year now. I've just turned it on to see what was on, scrolled through there was absolutely nothing that grabbed my interest so turned it off. I use my laptop for RUclips and X which is my go to for news with Facebook only for marketplace that's it! The reason I like X is because it's breaking world news and I like reading posts and comments rather than being broadcast by the legacy MSM. I watch Joe Rogan, Chris Williamson, Andrew Gold, TRIGGERnometry on RUclips and on podcasts too.
Enthralling watch! I was captivated from start to end. Joining up the dots in my mind on what Dominic had to say. With my career background I could identify with so many points of criticism he shared. More please!
You cannot attract talent to a meaningless position. Therefore the quality of MPs will only improve AFTER parliamentary and ministerial power is restored
I absolutely agree with that I just don’t see any way it can happen. Those in power aren’t going to give it up without revolution and that’ll be difficult to achieve
@Sunny-Side-of-the-Street-39 It was polititians who gave the power away to quangos in the first place. It wouldn't take a work of parliamentary genius to take control back just the will to do so
The growth of bureaucracy has stifled medium and larger companies too. The 'process' has become more important than the outcome. HR Darpartments have ballooned, quality assurance processes have stifled creative thinking, more and more people are recruited into non productive roles. Growth in human rights (but what about human responsibilities??) has generated an 'entitlement' culture that is not linked to performance. It can be changed with political will and courage.
The media go for him because of how compelling he is to listen to. Dominic, Habib, Gerard Batton, Tommy, Starkey, Katie Hopkins, Clarkson, Michael Caine?! Come on, it’s time to build a real British party.
@@importantjohn did you watch his lawfare piece.. personally I found news in there.. council funds were apparently used to buy the silence of people with personal knowledge. I found that alarming - as opposed to laughable..
That was before WW2 completely ruined us financially and spiritually. Now Britain is a husk. A once great nation reduced vassal status. Those few exceptional men who conquered the world for queen and country would be disgusted with what we've become.
I wish more people would listen to what Dom has to say. Our complete system of governance is broken and needs replacing. We need a complete overhaul. However the barriers to doing that are so huge (current legacy media and current establishment), it will take someone of true conviction and courage to take on that battle. The need to create a counter culture media like Rogan in the US is so important. I think it is key that Dom is a part of shaping this battle. I do feel encouraged listening to this.
The state should look at those who have run small business and self employed for talent because we are working at the front line and are able to find cost effective solutions to problems. The work ethic and mind set is also completely different!
The British Conservative Party needs to abandon the idea that public ownership is always bad. The water, electricity, and transport systems need removing from private ownership and put in some form of public ownership. As it is other countries are just extracting money from the country.
Public sector Network Rail employ twice as many people, with four times the budget, and just as many network delays, as did private Railtrack. And they have all the highest paid civil servants in the country, the top one earning 4.5x as much as the PM. Whilst no monopoly, public or private is good, at least the private sector is accountable to its shareholders, encouraging it to somewhat efficient. By contrast public monopolies, without any such motive, have an incentive to spend right upto their annual budgets, so the politicians have no reason to cut it thanks to efficiencies.
@Benzknees Not disagreeing entirely, but firstly, the government was subsidising the franchises massively before COVID, assuring private sector profits. The different franchises makes switching train companies on a journey a fraught nightmare. Also, not all public ownership models have to be the same as the Herbert Morrison model of the immediate post war period. If it was in true public ownership rather than being owned by the state for example, the company could be directly accountable to the service users.
@@StrayGator - Interesting idea, but how would that work in practice? How is the individual train user to hold a train operator to account? And how do you measure such without the usual price mechanism, that makes all private enterprise have to compete, institute efficiencies, and allocate resources to match supply with demand? And that makes all public sector enterprises inherently inefficient, bureaucratic and unable to match supply with demand. The NHS being the most obvious example, where a doubling of its real terms budget in the last 30yrs has ended up with a worse service.
@Benzknees Who knows how it will work but this is part of the process that is bereft in Whitrhall. Creative thinking! What I do know almost for certain is if Network Rail had been privatised, the last decade has shown that it would most likely become heavily indebted to pay dividends and the infrastructure would be in an even worse state than it is now. The water sector is in a perilous state and each day longer the situation remains as it is the more expensive it will be when judgement day comes!
@ - If private companies decide to take on debt, how does that affect you personally? It's the regulator who dictates pricing levels to private monopolies, not any internal financial engineering. And whilst I am aware there is a water company around London that comes in for such criticism, this is not necessarily representative of all. My own water provider has been just fine. In facf my bills are considerably lower (in real terms) than when it was a public company. Helped admittedly by the move to metering. Which itself a proxy of sorts for a proper price mechanism, discouraging waste on my part & encouraging efficiency on their part.
Cummings talk is so informative. I am not a Tory, but I also get frustrated at the lack of action and cooperation in the Uk, when it is required. Lawyers seem to be controlling and slowing down actions that need to be implemented quickly to save lives, and save resources long term. Lawyers are surplus to requirement.These people are obviously employed by big Corporations, to serve their finnancial interests. It's time for our government to begin running this country. Change laws when required, and get back to taking big decisions that impact us the electorate.
I must admit he is very clever, when he thought his eye site was failing and he might be going blind, he thought it would be a good idea to take his wife and kids for a long drive. 🤣
Shaggy politics "It Wasn't Me" Consequence of actions needs to be brought back. Business owners and normal taxpayers lose their homes, these people don't even get income based fines. Ty Mr Cummings for these insights.
The witch hunt interview in the garden was reprehensible. MSM like a pack of wolves. So glad you have tough skin. Sorry you have to deal with these people who don't appear to be I texted in improving our country
What an excellent video. Cummings has never appealed to me, l suspected he was a woke lefty in disguise. How shocking it was to me, the man talks absolute sense. I'd never have thought there was such a simple explanation to whats wrong in recent/current UK politics. Following this video, I'm optimistic for the future of the UK.
This is absolute gold. Love Dominic Cummings plain truths. These are the types of people we need in power globally, and why not having them is why the world is so broken.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy is key here. The permanent civil service (that was cemented in with Blair) is a major part of the lethargy we see in government.
I have worked 20 years in technology, cloud and data. I worked for the public sector and lasted 6 months, mainly because of the complete lack of quality of my peers, the people considered experts had PHDs in some completely irrelevant discipline. I think this disease is spreading, for that reason I now work in the Middle East.
If there is one thing starzi has shown is that he can get things through parliament very quickly when before it was said it would take months. Look at the assisted dying bill. This is in no way praise for starzi.
I would like to hear exactly why Cummings condemns Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. Please refrain from insulting comments toward me for adking this question.
His thoughts on British elite talent no longer seeking government roles are insightful. The concept of ‘service’ (with possible roots in both Christian and Renaissance philosophy), began to fade from public discourse during the 1980s when the elite began seeking employment in more personally profitable areas such as investment banking and management consultancy. By this time, British society had fundamentally changed. The turnaround will only happen when there is a “renaissance” in education and societal values.
Fascinating listen. Farage can’t be the answer to this country’s problems. Please DC if you have plans to launch something new, please don’t wait, this country won’t survive a vote split between Reform and the Tories handing Labour yet another term. The country is crying out for something new, that would destroy the current shower, and you’re the only person that could create anything remotely resembling the current shift America has just seen. Please get Douglas Murray involved.
Looking around its hard to see any concrete group of serious intelligent and patriotic politicians. They used to be in all parties but now they are just absent. One or two cannot change anything. Dozens are needed but such people will have better things to do in this climate.
Ministers - including the PM - , MPs and civil servants from day one were so deeply suspicious of Dominic Cummings, that they did not allow him to get on with the job he wanted to do. I guess the question is, if that is the result of a structural problem or somehow related to Mr. Cummings' peculiar operating style. Perhaps a bit of both?
Hearing Dominic talk about the problem with PPE supply for “covid” I remember a businessman in the UK who shared that he had emailed the government to let them know that he had all the supplies needed and ready! He never got a response! Fishy to say the least. Unfortunately I do not remember the guy’s name.
Dom in on his failed politician arc - mention "deep state", claim the establishment was unfairly against you, write a book, do talks & appear on podcasts. GG
😂 yawn. Im sceptical about the intentions as ive learned over the past few years we have to question everything. I cant beleive the video of farage and starmer looking like best buds
Cummings should be Prime Minister, or permanent secretary or whichever postr would give him the most power, I believe he would be the best Pm since Churchill.
There’s a best selling book title right there - “A Necessary Cold Shower”. That is so quintessentially British in tone , yet describing the once-in-400 years revolution required. Cromwell levels ( that’s how deep the rot is )
Those who are comfortable in NOT speaking with their enemies, or challenging or questioning...are probably amongst the most destructive and dangerous people in society.
Think Dominic should align/work with Reform party / Nigel ,blueprint American/Trump model for government change/reduction,smashing administrative state
One thing that i would like to point out is i wasnt surprised when people like zahawi have no interest in the good of the country is because he was not born and bred here. He's not part of the soil. To people like him its just a career path or a way to open more doors for his businesses. How long will it take for people to learn, just like when we sell british brands to foreign owners they have no interest in the country. Only themselves.
Now i see why Cummings had to go, nothing to do with his trip to Barnard Castle.He was upsetting the system.
Exactly
@@DonnaAylesburyRead his Wikipedia page! Tells you everything you need to know! He’s hated, virulently by the Left!
@@MargaretDeakin-d6m I guess the same can be said about Boris?
I worked in the NHS for 20 years and got bullied out because I was a threat to those poor at their jobs.
Dominic is 100% correct.
Hope you found a better job. That’s awful. 😮
@ erm...I ended up in the civil service! 😂
awful
Tracey, my dad has been in the NHS for over 30 years he was a banned 4 and they demoted him down to a band 1.
He’s really good at his job
And the management hate him for it 😂
Exactly the same story as mine, but they made me sick, really sick and i have never worked since, career ending at 39. Whistleblowers are always treated this way, i am part of a group, all whistleblew all had their careers ended on the NHS.
It's like we've lost a war and are ruled by an elite that don't have our interests at heart.
You did lose the war. Russia won the war.
They never did
Europe is a protectorate of America. American restaurants line the high streets, everyone is wearing American brands and watching American movies etc.
That’s what happened in WW2. Why do you think European founded countries are being flooded with non-whites?
🤔 if the Ruskies hadn't helped *us* 🇬🇧
We'd be speaking
German - Today.
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I'm 64. Haven't had a TV licence for 20 years. Same time I stopped reading/listening to MSN. Saw Dom on the Chris Williamson show. Totally changed my view of Dom. Have listened to quite a few of Dom's interviews since. Given me a really good insight into how government works or doesn't for that matter and what needs to be done to fix it.
Is it correct Gove calls Cummings "Lenin"...??
@@Rockall57 I'm 57 and have the same feelings.
I only left the TV in 2020, and satellite TV over 15 years ago!
I agree. The media absolutely ripped him to shreds because he doesn't follow The Narrative. I was a long time reader of his blog and knew his insights were invaluable. Very much worth listening to.
@@CaldonianDude He's a plain and blunt speaking Northerner (came from just up the road from me. In fact the first night club I went into, the Clute, back in 75, was owned by his pop). Just wanted to get the job done and put things right. Do some good for his country. No way was the establishment going to stand for that and so had to crucify him.
So why are we paying 650 MPs £85k per annum?
What about House of bores they get £1,800 a week tax free for nothing
Ironically its not a huge salary now, and thats why the quality is so low. Same goes for civil service, they are paying 2/3 less for some roles in tech sector vs private sector.
To keep up the charade of a democracy. Now since Starmer and his reaction to the Southport riots there isn't any pretence that we live in anthing but a tyranny.
Yeah, they need to increase their wages, wages of the PM and the PM needs a proper team: chef, PT, hair and makeup, cleaner, nurse, two personal secretaries and whatever Whitehall team he has.
They should be looked after like the President.
@@freyagoldilocksnice one!
I skipped past this a couple of times today whilst looking for something to listen to while working.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. I will certainly listen to Dom again. Thanks guys.
One of the only serious political thinkers in the UK. Thank you for platforming this conversation
Kinda funny how he was handed an influential unelected position (wet dream for "serious" political thinkers) and did nothing with it
He's a wannabe tech bro without the technical underpinning for it to be credible. Although he certainly takes himself seriously
@@farzanamughal5933 nah, he prides himself with influencing boris to adopt policies in 2020 based on predictions from this model.
@@farzanamughal5933did you watch the video or are you just commenting after reading the title?
He played a major part in the Brexit process.
Fascinating insight into the sad state of our country. Like him or not he is a deep thinker who is offering root cause of many of the cancers that are rotting our country, prosperity and society.
I agree
@@janwhite6038 I agree that he is intelligent and does offer insight, but at the same time I feel he sometimes comes across as being slightly egotistical and having a savior complex, as though if only he was in charge, that he could resolve every problem. I don't think it's that simple, but I agree that on some issues he obviously has insight and ideas.
@rafrick good observation
@@rafrick completely agree. At least he is prepared to speak his mind without it being dumbed down with political correctness.
Every member of this Government is THIRD RATE, and that's being generous
Compared to who?
Cummings reminds me of Stalin’s Beria. The guy is an unhinged narcissist psychopath - taking of purges and worshipping techno billionaires Musk and Thiel. Agreed he would be more efficient to expedite a future dystopia. Funny how these acolytes supposedly the brightest in the land don’t see through it 😮
Blame Reform voters
they don’t rate at all. They’re all stunted student activists. It’s unbelievable how we’ve got here & how terrible it’s going to get 😢💔
The Conservative Party has ceased to be such@@importantjohn
Cummings is a genius on assessing the political landscape..like Steve Bannon in US..if Reform have any ambition they get him on board to guide next election
Bannon was the comparison that came to my mind too. Hopefully with Elon's cash Reform will be able to afford him
Cummings should work with Habib who has left the cowardly Farage's Reform Party with a view to creating a serious challenge to the Tories.
Really Good Idea
Reform needed to be usurped.
Add Andrew Bridgen to the group please
Gerard Batten aswell.
Other independent candidates should work together the weaken the torries and labour.
We need lots of parties creating lots of manifetos so we can show the real alternative in policies and show that parties are part of the problem.
@@First_Principals exactly. My hopes in Reform have been dashed.
In case anyone was wondering Dominic was scheduled to MC at a grime night after this talk
Be spitting lyrics
That explains it, thanks.
US had drain the swamp. We need to empty the bog!
* flush
No they didn’t 😂
The person saying "everybody else is lying" the loudest might not always be all honest themself. Just saying...
@@RS66788 explain you're reasoning please
DT will indeed finish 'draining the swamp' this time in office.Our swamp clearing is now 'on hold'for a while but Starmers period in office will only hasten the necessity to get it done .We dont have the time here though due to the paucity of the right kind of people in positions of power due to our Parlementary election process.Hence we are condemned to the continual decline of all areas of life 'as we once knew it'.With the snobbery in the corridors of power and media (I notice it here with the mention of T Robinson)I expect little change.
'Fake immigration.' First time I've heard it referred to that way. Sums it up in two words and you know exactly what he means. Best definition so far 👏
When I tell people that 1.2 million gross come in a year and there’s only 30k vacancies in the NHS their jaw drops
@BellBeakerBloke 30k job vacancies? Where did you get that data? Also, do you know if that means long term vacancies?
Immigration has gone up since his big project, Brexit.
@@markpower9081 It started going up steeply way before that though, almost a decade before Brexit.
Cummings is a true visionary, the country would be so much better off if he had never left government
Yeah bro if only 2020 continued forever it was great
He literally pushed for lockdowns which caused massive amounts of harm
You don't need to be a 'visionary'' to know that the entire system is wholly dysfunctional and corrupt. This is why no decent or competent person will have anything to do with it. But it's fair to say that he is the only person with any experience of the system who has the integrity to call it out for what it is.
@@farzanamughal5933 oh it's you making negative comments again. Please watch the video.
Shame he didn’t have the vision to go to specsavers for an eye sight test, instead of driving to Barnard Castle. It shows his level of hubris and contempt for the rest of us that he thought we would believe such a ridiculous story.
A third of the way through and this has blown my mind, scripts for meetings is insane
Please stay in the game Dominic.
Thank you for this Q&A session. I follow and listen to Dominic at every opportunity I can. I'm a 63 year old woman, I haven't turned my TV on for over a year now. I've just turned it on to see what was on, scrolled through there was absolutely nothing that grabbed my interest so turned it off. I use my laptop for RUclips and X which is my go to for news with Facebook only for marketplace that's it! The reason I like X is because it's breaking world news and I like reading posts and comments rather than being broadcast by the legacy MSM. I watch Joe Rogan, Chris Williamson, Andrew Gold, TRIGGERnometry on RUclips and on podcasts too.
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Good taste 👍🏻
get them while you can. They’re slowly going to close down independent channels. I can see X being taken down, just like they have in Brazil 😱
@ Dominic is more in support of lockdowns than most governments. I think he is safe
Enthralling watch!
I was captivated from start to end. Joining up the dots in my mind on what Dominic had to say.
With my career background I could identify with so many points of criticism he shared.
More please!
We have careerist politicians now. Generally low calibre, ineffective and performative. The future looks bleak in the UK.
You cannot attract talent to a meaningless position. Therefore the quality of MPs will only improve AFTER parliamentary and ministerial power is restored
very true
I absolutely agree with that I just don’t see any way it can happen. Those in power aren’t going to give it up without revolution and that’ll be difficult to achieve
@Sunny-Side-of-the-Street-39 It was polititians who gave the power away to quangos in the first place. It wouldn't take a work of parliamentary genius to take control back just the will to do so
Spot on
The growth of bureaucracy has stifled medium and larger companies too. The 'process' has become more important than the outcome. HR Darpartments have ballooned, quality assurance processes have stifled creative thinking, more and more people are recruited into non productive roles. Growth in human rights (but what about human responsibilities??) has generated an 'entitlement' culture that is not linked to performance. It can be changed with political will and courage.
Well put!
The media go for him because of how compelling he is to listen to. Dominic, Habib, Gerard Batton, Tommy, Starkey, Katie Hopkins, Clarkson, Michael Caine?! Come on, it’s time to build a real British party.
'Tommy' LOL
@@importantjohn did you watch his lawfare piece.. personally I found news in there.. council funds were apparently used to buy the silence of people with personal knowledge.
I found that alarming - as opposed to laughable..
@@robo9804 yea, because if old Tommy says something it must be true😉
LOL, this has to be satire right?? Tommy? Hopkins? 🤣
@ I think he is serious. Kinda of frightening
Didn't the British used to run India (a population of 300 million) with only 1,000 people?
That was before WW2 completely ruined us financially and spiritually. Now Britain is a husk. A once great nation reduced vassal status. Those few exceptional men who conquered the world for queen and country would be disgusted with what we've become.
Yeah but they were different people. It is like saying Man Utd used to win the league every year.
Yes..but we don’t strap dissenters to the mouths of canon anymore.
@@TM-yr3pc You just throw them in jail for social media posts instead.
20.000
Providing an Honour to a failed Civil Servant is standard operating practise in the UK
I wish more people would listen to what Dom has to say. Our complete system of governance is broken and needs replacing. We need a complete overhaul. However the barriers to doing that are so huge (current legacy media and current establishment), it will take someone of true conviction and courage to take on that battle. The need to create a counter culture media like Rogan in the US is so important. I think it is key that Dom is a part of shaping this battle. I do feel encouraged listening to this.
This totally changes how I think about Cummings. I couldn't be more impressed.
Absolutely fascinating discussion, it's one of the most interesting I've listened too in months.
Very interesting, enjoy listening to him everytime
❤ Dominic Cummings. Eloquently tells it like it is.
Yes he does
And supports it was historical comparisons, previius government outcomes and diversion of budgets, facts figures truths
Thank you for bringing this into the public knowledge.
The state should look at those who have run small business and self employed for talent because we are working at the front line and are able to find cost effective solutions to problems.
The work ethic and mind set is also completely different!
This is the statecraft version of the KatWilliams interview about Diddy
DC is a great knowledgeable person, you can see he's hitting a brick wall and has come to the realisation the UK is doomed. :(
It's bloody fascinating getting his view from the inside. Seems like the quality of our elites is at the heart of most of the issues we face today
The U.K. needs this input.
It's all too depressing. Currently, I am reading 'Why We Get The Wrong Politicians' by Isabel Hardman, and all of this tallies. Something must change.
The British Conservative Party needs to abandon the idea that public ownership is always bad. The water, electricity, and transport systems need removing from private ownership and put in some form of public ownership. As it is other countries are just extracting money from the country.
Public sector Network Rail employ twice as many people, with four times the budget, and just as many network delays, as did private Railtrack. And they have all the highest paid civil servants in the country, the top one earning 4.5x as much as the PM.
Whilst no monopoly, public or private is good, at least the private sector is accountable to its shareholders, encouraging it to somewhat efficient. By contrast public monopolies, without any such motive, have an incentive to spend right upto their annual budgets, so the politicians have no reason to cut it thanks to efficiencies.
@Benzknees Not disagreeing entirely, but firstly, the government was subsidising the franchises massively before COVID, assuring private sector profits. The different franchises makes switching train companies on a journey a fraught nightmare.
Also, not all public ownership models have to be the same as the Herbert Morrison model of the immediate post war period.
If it was in true public ownership rather than being owned by the state for example, the company could be directly accountable to the service users.
@@StrayGator - Interesting idea, but how would that work in practice? How is the individual train user to hold a train operator to account? And how do you measure such without the usual price mechanism, that makes all private enterprise have to compete, institute efficiencies, and allocate resources to match supply with demand? And that makes all public sector enterprises inherently inefficient, bureaucratic and unable to match supply with demand. The NHS being the most obvious example, where a doubling of its real terms budget in the last 30yrs has ended up with a worse service.
@Benzknees Who knows how it will work but this is part of the process that is bereft in Whitrhall. Creative thinking!
What I do know almost for certain is if Network Rail had been privatised, the last decade has shown that it would most likely become heavily indebted to pay dividends and the infrastructure would be in an even worse state than it is now. The water sector is in a perilous state and each day longer the situation remains as it is the more expensive it will be when judgement day comes!
@ - If private companies decide to take on debt, how does that affect you personally? It's the regulator who dictates pricing levels to private monopolies, not any internal financial engineering.
And whilst I am aware there is a water company around London that comes in for such criticism, this is not necessarily representative of all. My own water provider has been just fine. In facf my bills are considerably lower (in real terms) than when it was a public company. Helped admittedly by the move to metering. Which itself a proxy of sorts for a proper price mechanism, discouraging waste on my part & encouraging efficiency on their part.
WEFminster puppets are only puppets.Quite simple!!Welcome to the great reset!!”You will own nothing and be happy”
Well that was totally depressing. But you know for sure in your heart this is actually howv it is
Cummings talk is so informative. I am not a Tory, but I also get frustrated at the lack of action and cooperation in the Uk, when it is required.
Lawyers seem to be controlling and slowing down actions that need to be implemented quickly to save lives, and save resources long term. Lawyers are surplus to requirement.These people are obviously employed by big Corporations, to serve their finnancial interests.
It's time for our government to begin running this country. Change laws when required, and get back to taking big decisions that impact us the electorate.
I must admit he is very clever, when he thought his eye site was failing and he might be going blind, he thought it would be a good idea to take his wife and kids for a long drive. 🤣
Hahaha i must admit hes been growing on me recently. He knows exactly what is going on
..we may be fucked
ARE
We already are!
may ???
Did you hear the hit about the uk finances
Thanks for speaking out.
Everything boils down to corruption because it never ends.
Shaggy politics "It Wasn't Me" Consequence of actions needs to be brought back. Business owners and normal taxpayers lose their homes, these people don't even get income based fines. Ty Mr Cummings for these insights.
We need Dominic Cummings to lead a British version of Elon Musk's DOGE
The witch hunt interview in the garden was reprehensible. MSM like a pack of wolves. So glad you have tough skin. Sorry you have to deal with these people who don't appear to be I texted in improving our country
The news is fake as well.
that was disgraceful. I’m not he biggest fan of DC but he was treated awfully.
I disagree. He lied and was caught out and not big enough to apologise.
What an excellent video. Cummings has never appealed to me, l suspected he was a woke lefty in disguise. How shocking it was to me, the man talks absolute sense. I'd never have thought there was such a simple explanation to whats wrong in recent/current UK politics. Following this video, I'm optimistic for the future of the UK.
how are you optimistic. I feel nothing but despair 😢
Great discussion, please get Dom back soon.
Yes he could get rid of the useless communists in the Civil Service and useless ministers.90% should go.
Why would anyone who is intelligent, capable, and generally excellent go into politics?
They don't!!
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In the words of Private Frazer in Dad's Army 'we're doomed!'.
Cummings is very smart.
'The purpose of the system is what it does.'
This is absolute gold. Love Dominic Cummings plain truths. These are the types of people we need in power globally, and why not having them is why the world is so broken.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy is key here. The permanent civil service (that was cemented in with Blair) is a major part of the lethargy we see in government.
Don't forget Barbara Roache
‘poor people at the back’ surprised any ‘poor’ people are in attendance 😊
I have worked 20 years in technology, cloud and data. I worked for the public sector and lasted 6 months, mainly because of the complete lack of quality of my peers, the people considered experts had PHDs in some completely irrelevant discipline. I think this disease is spreading, for that reason I now work in the Middle East.
If there is one thing starzi has shown is that he can get things through parliament very quickly when before it was said it would take months. Look at the assisted dying bill. This is in no way praise for starzi.
Excellent podcast well done guys very informative
Why am I not surprised!
Learning so.much about how the government functions from you.
I would like to hear exactly why Cummings condemns Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. Please refrain from insulting comments toward me for adking this question.
Brilliant 👏...so interesting, really puts the establishment into perspective
Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence about the process of government.
His thoughts on British elite talent no longer seeking government roles are insightful. The concept of ‘service’ (with possible roots in both Christian and Renaissance philosophy), began to fade from public discourse during the 1980s when the elite began seeking employment in more personally profitable areas such as investment banking and management consultancy. By this time, British society had fundamentally changed. The turnaround will only happen when there is a “renaissance” in education and societal values.
We no longer have seperation of power between the Crown, Executive and Judciary
REFORM definitely need to recruit him.
Yes
Farage wouldn’t be able to control him though so he wouldn’t let him in IMO
Brilliant thinker.
Not really. He merely states the obvious. But that is indeed a rare thing in modern Britain and the West in general.
I’d like to see this guy team up with Reform UK
Get Dominic into the British DOGE
UK-DOGE! Stormont should be in scope..
Fascinating listen. Farage can’t be the answer to this country’s problems. Please DC if you have plans to launch something new, please don’t wait, this country won’t survive a vote split between Reform and the Tories handing Labour yet another term. The country is crying out for something new, that would destroy the current shower, and you’re the only person that could create anything remotely resembling the current shift America has just seen.
Please get Douglas Murray involved.
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Absolutely fascinating. TY
Looking around its hard to see any concrete group of serious intelligent and patriotic politicians.
They used to be in all parties but now they are just absent. One or two cannot change anything. Dozens are needed but such people will have better things to do in this climate.
A deep interview and talk indeed. Thanks to all.
He keeps saying “pathological” when it’s obvious he means captured and corrupt.
Agree we have no lived history of total war so we cannot even comprehend what's happening and the danger we are in
Ministers - including the PM - , MPs and civil servants from day one were so deeply suspicious of Dominic Cummings, that they did not allow him to get on with the job he wanted to do. I guess the question is, if that is the result of a structural problem or somehow related to Mr. Cummings' peculiar operating style. Perhaps a bit of both?
Hearing Dominic talk about the problem with PPE supply for “covid” I remember a businessman in the UK who shared that he had emailed the government to let them know that he had all the supplies needed and ready! He never got a response! Fishy to say the least. Unfortunately I do not remember the guy’s name.
Interesting discussion slightly blighted by baseball cap
Very scruffy but talked sense
Yes can’t work that out!
It's a f" you to a broken system, he no longer doffs his cap to a broken establishment.
He may have fallen asleep on the sofa and got an old lolly stuck in his hair. I do that sometimes
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Only when you are near to the consequence of failure or become accountable for failure do you make decisions that have to be correct
Dom in on his failed politician arc - mention "deep state", claim the establishment was unfairly against you, write a book, do talks & appear on podcasts. GG
😂 yawn. Im sceptical about the intentions as ive learned over the past few years we have to question everything. I cant beleive the video of farage and starmer looking like best buds
Why have none of these sykopaths been arrested yet?
Surprised nobody asked Cummings simple questions like “Who’s in charge?” - and nothing about his ousting or Operation Surprise/Gwyn Prins et al.
Cummings should be Prime Minister, or permanent secretary or whichever postr would give him the most power, I believe he would be the best Pm since Churchill.
If he took off that silly hat, maybe
This guy was the devil to msm for years, but I never saw them give him a platform to discuss his ideas, not once.
Nothing will ever change.
Thank you Dominic. Terrifying as ever. A necessary cold shower.
There’s a best selling book title right there - “A Necessary Cold Shower”. That is so quintessentially British in tone , yet describing the once-in-400 years revolution required. Cromwell levels ( that’s how deep the rot is )
clarity of thought here is absolutely brilliant. which means in modern Britain it has to be ignored / suppressed.
Those who are comfortable in NOT speaking with their enemies, or challenging or questioning...are probably amongst the most destructive and dangerous people in society.
Think Dominic should align/work with Reform party / Nigel ,blueprint American/Trump model for government change/reduction,smashing administrative state
Means nothing without mass re-migration. That’s the number 1 issue
Reform have lost my respect after seeimg farage basically sucking off starmer in the hoc
One thing that i would like to point out is i wasnt surprised when people like zahawi have no interest in the good of the country is because he was not born and bred here. He's not part of the soil. To people like him its just a career path or a way to open more doors for his businesses.
How long will it take for people to learn, just like when we sell british brands to foreign owners they have no interest in the country. Only themselves.
Just what are they getting paid for then? Just to travel around looking like they’re doing something.
So PMQs, is this all
scripted?
Why don’t you tell them if you are autonomous player or better, who’s really is pulling your strings?
Amazing how he was outmaneuvered by Johnson.
Nigel Farage, are you listening to this?
very good
Forget the boats put the coaches on.
Very interesting discussion. 👍
Very interesting guy to listen to.