Ex BrewDog CEO follows Elon Musk lead as he shares UK Doge plan

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James Watt came to prominence with Brewdog thanks to his well known penchant for silly publicity stunts. From a 55% beer inside a taxidermy squirrel to projecting pictures of himself and his business partner on the House of Commons.

Over time, Brewdog became less "punk" and increasingly corporate, with Watt having to leave his position as CEO over questions about the workplace culture in their bars and Watt's behaviour towards female staff. And now he's jumped on the right wing grifter bandwagon, aping the behaviour of dodgy Tufton Street think tanks.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24932280.brewdogs-james-watt-follows-elon-musk-lead-shares-uk-doge-plan/

BrewDog founder James Watt has shared his vision to ‘save out country’ and become Britain’s version of Elon Musk.

Watt outlined his plans on social media when he announced the creation of ‘Shadow Doge’, the UK version of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in the United States. He wants to follow the South African-born businessman’s example and believes he can find ways to improve Britain’s spending.

He plans on using Freedom of Information requests to highlight where tax money is ‘carelessly’ being spent and has also created an anonymous hotline for public sector workers to report areas where they think waste is being created with funding.

Some of his other plans include publishing a monthly report on where the government can be more efficient with spending, taking an ‘entrepreneurial approach’ to the public sector to highlight where it could make billions of pounds of cuts and publishing a league table with public bodies that are ‘worst offending’ at wasting money.