[incangold]

Hey, a left-leaning folk here (in that I broadly approve of Labour’s manifesto, if not its execution or current leadership).

The things Cummings gets right are already well-discussed, among the lefties in my social group at least. And he gets a fair bit of not-entirely-negative analysis in the Guardian.

I like almost everything Cummings says about data-driven government. That’s all fine. But that’s also not what people are generally taking exception to.

On the other hand, I think Seumas Milne is terrifying. Perhaps more so than Cummings, were Milne to have actual power.

You use the expression “left-leaning”. Cummings himself demonstrates the limits of simple left/right, liberal/conservative labels. He’s a little bit of all of those things. He’s not a Conservative party member, for example. Immigration doesn’t bother him personally.