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Dominic Cummings — less political genius, more poundshop Machiavelli at the heart of a government of wolves
It was Edward R Murrow who once pointed out that ‘A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves’. Today, in Britain, after being systematically ‘sheepified’ by a media of shuffling scuffling courtiers riding shotgun for a corrupt political establishment, we have ourselves precisely that — a government of wolves.
The dire consequence is that the worst possible crisis to arrive in our midst, in the shape of a deadly virus which at time of writing has accounted for over 60,000 souls and counting across the UK, has in the worst possible government the best friend it could possibly have.
The controversy surrounding Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, is more than over the way he, if reports are to be believed, violated the very lockdown rules he himself had a role in setting. No, it’s the arrogance and contempt which he and the entire Cabinet have demonstrated in the days since the story broke, dissembling and deflecting as if their lives have depended on it.
Boris Johnson’s decision to defend his senior adviser rather than sack him will live on in infamy. It also marks his political demise. The practiced bonhomie and contrived buffoonery has now given way to the deeply malevolent and…
