It’s well worth reading Dominic Cummings Substack article dated June 23rd on the subject of the utter and complete chaos that engulfed Britain’s administrative system when Covid hit Britain.
Whilst we should bear in mind that Mr Cummings may be trying to make himself look good, I do not doubt what he says about how systems that should be flexible and responsive to change are sclerotic and sluggish.
Mr Cummings alleges that crucial data that was needed for planning just wasn’t there or was not reliable and gives the example of the NHS failing to be able to give accurate figures of deaths, infections or hospital bed occupancy. Having experienced the sort of beuracracy that the NHS runs I can well believe that what he is saying about the NHS and data is correct.
Mr Cummings is also alleging that too much time and effort is spent on creating a paper trail in order to protect the Government from Judicial Review and that this hampers the administration of government. One thing that completely astonished me in Mr Cummings’s article was that Britain missed out on overseas PPE purchases because nobody in Whitehall thought it necessary to have a 24/7 payment system. In other words the UK Government could not sign purchase agreements with overseas PPE suppliers because there was nobody with the ability to sign off purchases awake and available in London.
It’s plain to see that the way that Britain is administered is a complete and utter mess and in my view it’s quite likely that many more Britons have died from Covid than maybe should have done because the Civil Service runs at the pace of a snail when it should be running like a racehorse.
Read Mr Cummings Substack article via the link below:
https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/the-uks-procurement-system-and-judicial
