Not a plot, nothing to plot against. Just a mechanism that has evolved. No conspiracy, it’s just what happens when you make public services with public funding an available cash cow for private companies. The fact it is allowed to happen is simply a facet of the Government of the time representing those such a system benefits more than those it does not. That is not a plot as such.

‘Why would any Government do something that costs considerably more’?

Because of where the money ends up. If a local authority’s in-house IT do it, the money goes on their salaries. If Capita (the largest out-sourcer, as an example) do it, the money goes on their salaries, plus the salaries of their sales, marketing and contracts team, backhanders to local authority decision makers to get/keep the contracts, AND profits for the shareholders. That last is the reason why they do it. No it ‘shouldn’t’ happen, and in an ‘aware’ democracy it wouldn’t, but that is not where we are living.

With my cards on the table – I work for a small tech company that sells its services exclusively to the uk public sector – I can honestly say I have never heard of a contract for ‘outsourcing’ of work of any kind ever saving the taxpayer money. It is as simple as that. Every instance I have come across, in fifteen years, of a tech service being taken from delivery by an in-house team to a paid-for delivery by the likes of Capita, G4S etc, has ended up costing more. In too many cases multiples more.

Sky TV are discussing his not talking to them? Are they saying ‘actually, to be fair if I was pursued down the street first thing in the morning by people yelling questions at me and shoving a camera into my face I’d tell them to f off’? No?

If you only watch the news (or read the papers) that you know will agree with you then you might start to think the whole world does. Truth is a lot of people dislike Sky and distrust Sky news. If you look at the shameless twisting of anything he says or has said, you can surely understand his reticence?

Nice mince

Quorn, not you Meddle.

Why was this aircraft so inaccurate -I guess there must have been constraints, I am sure one wouldn’t be that far off by choice if one was spending that much money, without external factors playing a part?