it’s often “very good, sensible, intelligent,” and experienced officials trying to “stop the idiots who are being elected doing terrible things.”

“A lot of the things that were best in COVID was the deep state thwarting [then-Health Secretary] Matt Hancock, the elected politician for the benefit of the country,” Cummings declared. “There was an official plan which was herd immunity,”  adding that the plan came from the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health and Social Care, which “kept thinking that … this was the only way of handling it. He and a small team “got Boris in a room” to “talk to him through the reality” that resistance to lockdowns would soon become politically unsustainable.

Cummings believes on the one hand it’s “for the good” that “brilliant 30-year-old women who no one’s heard of and no one elected [are] actually running things” because “the quality of the elected people is so desperately bad now across Western governments.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/deep-state-real-uks-dominic-cummings-admits