>>Cummings by comparison is not an elected politician.
I'm not sure I follow the implied logic there. He is in a powerful and therefore very responsible position at the heart of government, and seems to be doing the job of a top civil servant, on what basis I'm not sure. Civil servants at almost every level have traditionally been held to high standards, if not of competence then at least of propriety - I even felt the weight of it in my brief period as a "Clerical Officer" in 1971!
Cummings IIRC even appointed himself to SAGE and, possibly uniquely, was a major functionary in both the advisory and political camps behind the anti-infection measures. Of course he should have got the boot - instead he was given the stage in the garden of 10 Downing Street. Rotten, rotten, rotten.
CGN - I wasn't taking comfort from the idea that only a decadent country could elect Trump and then keep him in office when the greatest and good-est people in the land had the opportunity to put things right. The decadence itself is surely a bigger problem than Trump? If it can happen there, could it not happen here?
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