As if the Brexit saga wasn’t already strange enough, it just got a bit more absurd of late when Dominic Cummings, adviser to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson invited in his blog ‘weirdos and misfits’ to apply to join the British civil service.
And so Uri Geller of spoon bending fame has announced that he put himself forward as a candidate, stating in his cover letter that his career as an entertainer is the perfect cover for a career in espionage.
At 73 years of age he is certainly no spring chicken, but if his claim that he helped Boris Johnson win the election is true, this definitely would make him a suitable contender, as might his possible connections to extraterrestrials who supposedly gave him his paranormal powers.
True, there are many brilliant people working in the British government, but also, and I do agree with Mr Cummings there, too many bureaucrats who are paid too much for achieving too little. So his call for applications from more practice oriented people and oddballs makes certainly sense. To quote from Mr Cummings’ blog:
“We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger or that Chinese-Cuban free runner from a crime family hired by the KGB.
“If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about [French psychoanalyst Jacques] Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news.”
By the way, it seems Britain is also inviting applications for the post of Ambassador to the US: Uri Geller might be the right man to bend President Trump’s ear.
And I need to think hard whether I am going to apply to any of these – you have been warned…
The grumpy older man 