He's going to town on Matt Hancock. Surely he has to be fired or fall on his sword (though from recent experience I doubt it)?
Whether you fully believe Cummings or not and I'm sure he is spinning this for his own reasons, it paints a bleak picture about the lack of organisation at the top level of the civil service, government and SAGE.
The advice given was woeful, the ministers directly involved clueless and Matt Hancock is completely useless at best and dangerously incompetent in reality alongside being a lying twat if cummings is being truthful.
Boris is confirmed as a bumbling ditherer. Cummings at one point stated that they should have put a single person in charge that had dictatorial powers for the response in terms of being able to high and fire GOV department heads etc and manage the response. My first thought was, surely that is the Prime Minister
Then remembered it was BoJo.
I think it highlights what has been said ages ago that we planned for the wrong type of pandemic. One not as deadly or transmittable and had zero plan B for a SARS type one even though there had been less serious ones in Asia a few times in the past.
We have to learn from this and have proper contingencies in place for future pandemics where testing, PPE, lockdowns, financial support for people, ICU capacity, travel bans and all the rest are ready to be deployed when they will be the most effective e.g. before the R rate is spiraling and it's too late to stop it early and having full lockdowns and many deaths.
