Dan is an absolutely classic example of the retards who form the modern Left and currently run the country, the path is so well trodden that you’ll instantly recognise it:
Born (1992)
School
PPE at Oxbridge (natch)
Civil service role (HMT in this case)
Local councillor (classic)
Think tank role (Resolution Foundation)
Think tank role (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
MP
Cabinet minister (ffs)
He’s 33, and has never worked in a real job. That should disqualify him from having any ministerial role on its own. Instead, he’s been totally coddled within the lifelong safety of public sector and left leaning think tank / NGO type roles, that have prepared him for the mind bendingly retarded policies he now either helps formulate or defends. You should have 30 years+ market experience before you even think about a senior role in HMT or advising the Exchequer.
This is why the country is so utterly fucked. We have for at least ~3 decades now had an army of Dan’s running the major apparatus of state. They all float effortlessly between “think tanks” and other policy making and paid writing gigs without ever seeing a tax they didn’t like or a “rich person” they didn’t need to pay more tax. They drive the enshittification of the country through their complete lack of understanding on anything and a totally misguided sense of righteousness and ideology.
Terminally linear in thought, they lack the mental acuity or ability to create value or yield in any way, common sense eludes them entirely, they can barely understand the first order consequences of their actions, let alone the second and third.
The system attracts and retains the very least suited people in the country to making big economic decisions because anyone with any talent heads directly into the private sector. The system by default selects for retards, and they fail upward because the public sector, without the brutal feedback loops of the private sector, rewards survival over success. The compound effect of this is an embedded pseudo intelligentsia of “Intellectual Yet Idiots” on a never ending carousel of different ministerial roles. They are allowed 1-3 years of experience in one department and by the time they start to grasp the basics they are scurried along to the next department; “ok now you’ve got the basics of agriculture fancy having a go as defence minister?”
Until we remove these Fabian saboteurs from the civil service, judiciary, NGOs, think tanks and other governmental and policy forming bodies, things will only get worse in the UK. It’s as guaranteed as their jobs despite abject performance.
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The nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to be the director of the National Institutes of Health is the single greatest case of poetic justice in my lifetime.
Jay, who holds both an MD as well as a PhD in economics, is a professor at Stanford University.
During the COVID years he had to endure the slings and arrows of mental and moral midgets who were unfit to shine his shoes.
He correctly spoke out against the useless and evil lockdown policy as well as much of the rest of the madness.
Now that it's obvious that none of those things did any good, and simply destroyed millions of lives for no good reason, some people are trying to pretend they never supported any of it.
But we remember the truth, and how those people behaved toward decent people and brilliant scientists like Jay.
Jay was smeared by Francis Collins, who was director of the very institution Jay will now direct, as a "fringe epidemiologist" because he correctly insisted that lockdowns were no part of any pandemic policy ever proposed anywhere.
Collins has since admitted that his institution had major blind spots during COVID. But Jay wasn't blind. The mild-mannered Jay Bhattacharya, who never sought the spotlight but was forced into it by events, spoke the truth from day one, and for that he has the gratitude of all thinking people everywhere.
I am honored and humbled by President @realDonaldTrump's nomination of me to be the next @NIH director. We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!
Guys, stop behaving like rookies.
The reason you are getting the usual MSM pollsters (Marist/CNN/Suffolk/Ipsos) flooding the zone with good polls for Harris in the Rust Belt is b/c it’s now common knowledge that this is now Harris’ 1 path to victory.
The Sun Belt is gone.
Her only chance at victory is sweeping WI, MI, and PA. The problem for Democrats and the Harris campaign, which they know internally, is that she’s also down there.
Therefore, they needed their MSM polling firms to produce their usual BS polls to create an artificial “surge” and hopefully drive out turnout in these states.
It’s a Hail Mary. Stop falling for it.
What’s weird is how the legacy media all has the same talking points simultaneously, even the same phrases like “sharp as a tack” about Biden before the debate.
Then they all stabbed him in the back right after the debate ended and went from ignoring Kamala to saying she’s the messiah. Doesn’t this seem a little odd?
Hydroxychloroquine was dismissed as a Covid treatment early on and its supporters were censored. But now a new peer-reviewed study finds the cheap drug dramatically cuts Covid mortality after all. https://t.co/uv5sSy2viH
@sainsburys That wasn't the cause but I managed to fix it by removing something from my basket. Think the api to load the forgotten favourites just bugged out. All ok now. Thanks.