Comment on I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

Th4tGuyII@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Burnham has a break clause and every reason to use it. He should not waste the chance.

Even if most people who know of Palantir are against its use; even if Palantir's whole platform is statistically proving to be cost-ineffective and bad at its job; even if multiple senior public office leaders call for the break clause to be enacted; even then, I still have my doubts anything will be done about it as long as the contracts proves lucrative enough for the cronies.

After a decade if Tory bullshit, I was happy for a non-Tory to finally get into office, and more than happy to give Starmer benefit of doubt - after all he had a decade of Tory bullshit to clear up - but he has proved himself to be much of the same.

I genuinely would like for Burnham surprise me, but I'm not expecting much different.
I think we'd need a new party, not red or blue ties, in to see any real change - ideally that'd be the greens, but I guess we'll see what happens.

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