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sobiolite • today at 9:36 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

It should, but knowing UK gov they'll instead pay Accenture and IBM £10bn for a backup system that'll take 15 years and never get delivered.


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Ungh • today at 9:52 AM

It's usually worse. They spend it in many £500k consultancy blocks asking how to fix something, get a report back, don't implement it and then the staff who were working on it get a position in another part of the government.

Borg3 • today at 9:47 AM

Exacly, because 10B is big enough that everyone involved can get a bit of slice from it... Corruption is astronomical these days.