Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Cummings to be gone by Christmas according to the BBC - you can hear the sigh of relief though the Industrial/Military Complex.............
I agree with ORAC that this is the wrong take, with one exception... BAES will be breathing a huge sigh of relief as they can stop worrying about high-end R&D and get back to their preferred business model of selling unremarkable products “cheaply” to MOD at marginal cost, to Gulf states at high markups, and trousering support and upgrade money from its customers over an extended service life. Many within the military were actually hoping that Cummings would succeed in forcing a different approach with his support for Defence investment in other industries and academic research. However - he has been intending to move on for some time and I wonder whether the Cabinet Secretary, an unusual appointment in many ways and much less vulnerable to being ousted, has been primed to take forward some of Cummings’s thinking on research and innovation without it attracting fire simply for being Cummings’s.