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BORIS JOHNSONS DOWNING Street is now a branch of the entertainment industry, with a lack of serious focus on important issues, Dominic Cummings said.
The former chief assistant to the British Prime Minister has used his website to launch a new round of attacks on the functioning of the UK government.
He claimed that if the way the top of the government worked was shown to the outside world, everyone would sell everything and head to the bunker in the hills.
Cummings made the comments today in an online question-and-answer session, which subscribers must pay to access.
This is Cummings’ latest salvo in his sustained war of words with the British Prime Minister.
In response to a question about his experience of being close to power and the opportunities it offered, Cummings said: Fascinating but very unsettling.
The world is so dangerous, there are so many very smart and capable people when you look at the height of power you feel. If this was broadcast, everyone would sell everything and head to the bunker in the hills.
In his latest attack on Whitehall, he added that it is impossible to describe how horrible decision making is at the height of power and that it is usually the blind who lead the blind.
Responding to a question about general artificial intelligence (AGI), the hypothetical ability of machines to develop human thought, Cummings said the country that acquired the technology first might be able to master all the others and all of them. destroy us.
Cummings, who has a fascination with military science and technology, said AGI should be the focus of government thinking, but it is not, despite his efforts in Downing Street.
No such thing now will be seriously worked out in Issue 10. Number 10 is just a branch of the entertainment industry and will remain so until BJ is gone, at the earliest, Cummings said. .
The most valuable commodity in (government) is concentration and the Prime Minister literally believes that concentration is a threat to his freedom to do what he wants today, which is why you see the opposite of concentration now and will do it till he goes away
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Cummings’ latest criticism came after he called his former ally Johnson a blunder machine and posted text messages in the early stages of the pandemic in which the PM sharply criticized UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock .
The former chief assistant to the prime minister made the comments on Monday Source: Oli Scraff / PA
Cummings posted a WhatsApp screenshot in which the Prime Minister described the Health Secretary as utterly desperate in an exchange about coronavirus testing.
In another post about the difficulties obtaining ventilators, Johnson replied: It’s Hancock. He was desperate.
Appearing on BBC Breakfast today, Hancock acknowledged that people say all kinds of things in private when under pressure, but insisted that he and Johnson work very closely together.
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