Delegation is a key tool for leaders..... the "office junior" Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park hardly sounds like a YTS employee.
I prefer to call him Zac Goldsmith, revolving door MP and failed London Mayor candidate who got whacked in the Lords in order to allow him to have a ministerial position as he isn’t a member of Parliament, which was one of Cummings’ big loopholes. That makes him an unelected bureaucrat, which is really weird given he was a big Brexit supporter. I’m looking, but I can’t find out how we get rid of him since we never voted him in to begin with?
Anyway. Let’s look at his background a little bit.
“Born in London to a notable family, the son of billionaire businessman and financier Sir James Goldsm…”
Christ. Let’s skip past this bit. Ah, here we go…
“In 1998, his uncle Edward Goldsmith made him editor of The Ecologist, a position he retained until…”
Blah blah blah blah. Let’s get to the bit where he’s qualified to be anywhere near a crisis in the Middle East. It must be here
somewhere. What about…
“Goldsmith was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment and International Development on 27 July 2019 and was promoted to Minister of State with the right to attend Cabinet on 10 September 2019. He was defeated at the 2019 general election, again by Sarah Olney, with a majority of 7,766 votes. After the election, Boris Johnson awarded Goldsmith with a life peerage, making him a member of the House of Lords and allowing him to retain his ministerial position. On 13 February 2020, he acquired the additional role of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs with responsibility for…”
Oh. So he’s a billionaire, aristocratic, socialite posh boy with no grounds or mandate to be in his job, who has been handed absolutely everything from birth, including a role that has seen him wind up at the controls during a genuine international crisis.
You’re right - “Lord Goldsmith” certainly isn’t a YTS. The YTS would probably be more qualified.
Another resounding victory for Patriotic Britain and the working classes. Thank God we have proper, experienced and democratically elected politicians in charge of everything. For a second there I thought we had a bunch of tub thumping idiots who can barely even tie their own shoes.
Up yours, London elite!