Unnamed allies of Andy Burnham have briefed journalists that he is thinking of cancelling spytech firm Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS – only for other anonymous sources to roll back on the claim.
  • roboflop@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    From the article in the JC Novara media linked:

    Mosley responded: “We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents…

    There you go folks.

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    He’s just a new face for the rich to puppet. There will be no meaningful difference between him and Starmer, otherwise they wouldn’t let him do the job.

    • TWeaK@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 days ago

      There will be some meaningful difference, he will serve their interests better.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    From the article, it just sounds like there’s infighting about this. Some say dump Palantir, others say keep it. My bet is that Streeting is one of the anonymous sources who’s saying to keep it, since it was his bad idea to start with.

    It’d be a real shame if, by getting rid of Palantir, Burnham also caused Streeting to flounce out in a snit. What could we do without Streeting’s brilliance, which is almost as great as Mahmood’s charm?

  • TWeaK@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This was apparent as soon as Wes Streeting bowed out before him.

    Literally the only reason we’re changing PM’s is because the wealthy cunts want it. Kier is more bland than a sausage roll, but he’s also been pretty good like a sausage roll. He navigated a lot of Trump’s bullshit and we came out relatively clean because of that. He hasn’t done anything controversial enough to warrant stepping down, and yet the media was making out like he had without ever really saying what it was that crossed the line.

    Burnham is not a change that is any way positive for Britain.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      He hasn’t done anything controversial enough to warrant stepping down

      Losing local elections by a landslide seems a good reason to get rid of him. The same could be said about the Mandelson appointment.

    • Schal330@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      He hasn’t done anything controversial enough to warrant stepping down

      I picture it as a cumulative effect. He’s stumbled enough that it has built up to him being expected to step down.

      He was immediately off on the wrong footing when he came in and accepted a bunch of gifts while the country then (and still now) were struggling with cost of living. Then there was the U-turns, and the whole Mandelson thing was the straw that broke the camels back.

      Not that it matters who comes in next as PM, it will still very much be the same decline the country has been experiencing.

      • TWeaK@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The camel’s back was not broken, though. What happened was the media flogged a dead horse, and told everyone it was a camel.