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WHY does #Cummings story matter? WHAT does it obscure?
REAL story is huge transfer of govt assets to private companies that he& #39;s overseeing under cover of pandemic while restructuring Cabinet Office into his & #Gove& #39;s private fiefdom.
VIA: Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
REAL story is huge transfer of govt assets to private companies that he& #39;s overseeing under cover of pandemic while restructuring Cabinet Office into his & #Gove& #39;s private fiefdom.
VIA: Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
We have no insight into these contracts which did not go to tender but to Cummings& #39;s friends & associates. Including a massive transfer of our most private, intimate NHS data. The privatisation of essential state functions is happening in real time in almost complete darkness
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@SharonStoned70 - Post on #BITP under this pic. You& #39;ve got a brief overview. Source: Carole Cadwalladr /
@carolecadwalla / Guardian & Observer writer.
@carolecadwalla / Guardian & Observer writer.
@SharonStoned70 => POST THIS as connecting article => #SackCummings
£940 million in funding towards the No. 10 chief advisor’s pet project of a US-style research agency — #ARPA. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/20/dominic-cummings-billion-dollar-brainchild/">https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/2...
£940 million in funding towards the No. 10 chief advisor’s pet project of a US-style research agency — #ARPA. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/20/dominic-cummings-billion-dollar-brainchild/">https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/2...
Because none of this is acceptable. And which came first?The decision to centralise UK& #39;s response to COVID-19 which so many public health experts say is at the heart of its failure? Or the private contracts to the friends of ministers & advisors?
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Cummings made absolutely clear his conditions for working in govt were smashing civil service & rebuilding in his image & creating British & #39;ARPA& #39; - an AI-driven research facility. That& #39;s exactly what he& #39;s doing right now in Cabinet Office with Gove his long-time co-conspirator
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Sure, the hypocrisy & entitlement of Cummings is breathtaking but there& #39;s a far darker story that it obscures & it& #39;s why the focus must be on Johnson now & his decision to throw weight of his office - statement from No 10 - behind him.
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7/ There& #39;s so much more to say about this. And how it is eclipsing the news we learned yesterday that government is ignoring its own scientists. But job of holding both Cummings & No 10 to account is in hands of journalists who rely every day on Cummings & No 10 as & #39;sources& #39;
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#SackCummings
£940 million in funding towards the No. 10 chief advisor’s pet project of a US-style research agency — #ARPA. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/20/dominic-cummings-billion-dollar-brainchild/">https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/2...
£940 million in funding towards the No. 10 chief advisor’s pet project of a US-style research agency — #ARPA. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/20/dominic-cummings-billion-dollar-brainchild/">https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/2...
There& #39;s so much misogyny directed at @bbclaurak
who mostly does extraordinarily difficult job with grace & professionalism. But & #39;lobby& #39; system of embedding journalists in the heart of government is a busted flush & any serious society would undertake an honest review of it
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who mostly does extraordinarily difficult job with grace & professionalism. But & #39;lobby& #39; system of embedding journalists in the heart of government is a busted flush & any serious society would undertake an honest review of it
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