Dom's Bizarro Blog Kicks off the 'Roaring Twenties'

The roaring twenties are upon us, and in preparation for reforming the civil service, Chief Adviser Dominic Cummings has begun advertising for ‘weirdos with odd skills’ for software development and project management roles in Downing Street.

The whole thing is pretty unusual.

The strangest part was when he says he will: “Bin them within weeks if [they] don’t fit."

At the risk of stating the obvious; it’s not etiquette when running a government to advertise for eccentrics - on your niche blog - to give it a go on a fortnightly probation-period.

Fans and critics seem to view Dominic Cummings as a Tommy Robinson type, liable to assault someone down the pub in the name of Brexit.

Despite his unfounded reputation, Cummings is a privately educated technocrat, who has never even been a member of the Conservative party.

The ramblings of a lunatic

If you've read Dominiccummings.com, you'd know that outsourcing the civil service to weirdos is sort of 'his thing', and likely a condition for his joining the Johnson Administration. Still, it’s difficult to fathom that in THIS parliament, No.10 isn't already operating at a surplus of 'weirdos and misfits'.

The lengthy posts he shares on the restructuring of the civil service read like the musings of a fringe intellectual, however, it actually provides more details on how they plan to run the country for the next five years than the Tory manifesto did.

The ad wasn't released through the ordinary channels, betraying it as more of a statement of intent to hire 'weirdos' for the attention of journalists, rather than an authentic job posting.

A more entertaining possibility is that Cummings may just be advertising for likeminded individuals, his blog is bound to be frequented by fellow odd-balls keen for precarious work under fear of dismissal. He gives weight to this possibility, writing: “We want to improve our performance and make me much less important.”

This is one of the many times Cummings comes off as a bit of an egotist.

As stated, it would be entertaining to think that this post is a genuine job advert inviting his readers to run the country in his place - however, it’s much more on-brand that this is a personal boast.

The cynic in me chalks this up to an attempt by the Prime Minister’s chief adviser to portray himself in the papers as a genius non-conformist, preparing to harvest the talent of Britain’s brightest and best in a major shake-up.

The Telegraph have given weight to my pessimism by doing exactly that.