(not satire – it’s the UK today)
Hang on to your hats – here’s an example of government incompetence and downright corruption that’s so extreme it’s bordering on the surreal.
In 2011, the coalition government asked French firm STERIA to set up a £116m IT programme to help run staffing, procurement and payroll services for 90,000 civil servants.
But now the coalition government has decided to write off £56m of taxpayers’ money after the project was deemed to be late, over budget and obsolete.
Another IT project has been set up in its place outsourced to another private firm called Shared Services Connected Limited.
Which is 75% owned by STERIA.
In other words. The government have written off a failed project run by a private firm (STERIA) and decided to hand it over to another company (STERIA) owned by the same firm (STERIA).
And on top of that – STERIA have decided to outsource British jobs to India, Poland and Morocco.
Obviously, this shipping of British jobs abroad should be a big scandal. But it won’t be.
It should also be something both the Right and Left are united in condemning. But it won’t be.
It won’t be for the simple fact that – with the exception of the unions involved – very few people seem to know anything at all about it.
Obviously, if Cameron and co outsourcing British jobs abroad at taxpayers’ expense were ever to become front page news – it could be extremely damaging for the governing parties at the next election.
So better keep it to ourselves then.
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Pride's Purge 
Reblogged this on Recovery [sic] and commented:
Just read this, thought it would be a nice change of pace in comparison to what I normally post.
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What the hell are these coalitions BSTARDS getting away with? Is this what the Tory voters want? Shame shame shame on you for being a traitor to your own country and the true citizens of Britain.
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it was never about how to save monies but how to give it to their mates and outsourcing jobs abroad well they did that with the ship builders didn’t they jeff3
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It is no less dishonest to claim to be reducing the number of civil service posts but, in fact, transferring them en bloc to outsourcing Companies here and paying fees instead of wages.
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Another French outsourcing outfit trying to out-Atos Atos.
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Reblogged this on royboxer and commented:
Lunatics taking over the asylum
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Matthew Hancock, Minister for Skills, publically stated that UK employers have a social duty to hire British workers, all the while knowing that the outsourcing of jobs within his own government would have the opposite effect. I think he spouted this propaganda about a month before the outsourcing began to be reported upon or perhaps start having effect…not sure. No matter because when confronted by email about this contradiction which I believed warranted a statement to the house with a demand that the minister was as good as his word and ensured that the DWP did indeed offer the vacancies to UK job seekers and not to those outside the UK, as was the prescribed social duty, Hancock went off half cocked about how proud he was to be making tough decisions in such economic times…blah. blah…blahblahblah. He does however roll his eyes really well on TV, which appears to be a major prerequisite for representing our constituency. So long as no one mentions Mr Duut or the manner of his demise.
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So angry! Our people are struggling for jobs and they pay millions to a firm that they then don’t want but employ again and our jobs go abroad!!!!!!!!!
Keep it to ourselves eh? Hmmmmm
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
More money written off and our jobs outsourced to other countries…
Spread the word…
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
sadly, I’m not remotely surprised to read this. I think Tom Pride’s already put up something about this on his awesome site before. And it’s been done so much and so consistently by the Tories and Tory Democrats that you can almost come to expect it. As for it being reported in the press – there’s precious little hope of that. Apart from the fact that much of the press share the government’s deep hatred of the organised working class, at least one of the newspapers, as reported by Private Eye years ago, also outsources some of its functions to print services elsewhere in the world. So they’re hardly going to expose the government for doing something they themselves have also been doing for years.
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This story must have legs – it’s proof of everything us “anarchists” have been trying to highlight. Inquiry? Review? Let’s get a High Court Judge in to sit on a panel and, a year later, find that no-one will be to blame! How do they keep getting away with this type of thing?
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Reblogged this on | truthaholics and commented:
1% Cameron’s disrepute: From ruling the waves to waiving the rules!
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Reblogged this on stewilko's Blog and commented:
Unbelievable, the vast amounts of money this Government as given away and wasted. The have the nerve to take or withdraw money from the very poorest in the country. I hope when this dreadful coalition government comes to an end. There is, as with now over Atos and the WCA a call for evidence. A full inquiry into the dealings and mismanagement of finances. A independent indeph investigation of who signed what and who received if any bonuses from these so called “deals”
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don’t forget they have given billions in contracts to other countrys stating its being cheaper look at that one a few yrs ago I think were the ships building was given to another country yep made in great Britain don’t make me laugh should be sold down the river jeff3
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They did that years ago.
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The ongoing utter failure is that despite the massive recurring amounts that keep being paid out on these failed IT contracts, we, the public for whom they are undertaken, never see any contracted benefits from due performance; the failed contractor is never sued but as in this case actually rewarded with the replacement agreement for a greater amount.
But, year on year, these contracts repeatedly fail. Why? And why are our representatives still in their Office?
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The money trail would be interesting to know. I wonder what they are getting out of it?
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Money wasted by the scumbag Tories,now more money spent by scumbag Tories for another IT system that will be obsolete by the time they finish it then more money and again more money for systems that will be obsolete again and again and again till there will be billions of the tax payers money and that is what these out of date or obsolete No voters like,spending the hard working tax money,because scumbag Cameron does not give a monkeys about anyone and he is a traitor to England and the rest of the UK,please hurry 18th September please please please hurry so we can tell scumbag Cameron where to go and that is to HELL with no way back.
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Tom – I was just wondering, but you didn’t happen to think about also highlighting the UK government contracts with Steria during the last Labour government did you? No I didn’t think so.
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My grandson got a first class degree in computers and graphics from Salford Uni. By a stroke of good fortune he was hired by a man with a vision who got a team of excellent people together. Working with an NHS hospital they were designing /implementing the most connected user friendly IT programmes to help staff and patients. My grandson had to represent the team at a high management review…..He described this bad tempered woman who arrived late to the meeting. She was very dismissive of the whole thing until she saw what had already been done and how this company worked with input and feedback on every level. Louie described how she began to ask questions and understand the graphics and tablets etc. She said she had never experienced any IT which wasn’t just a raft of new things to get to grips with by aloof technicians. He made me smile as he told me how he was crouched down beside her and watching her closely becoming enthusiastic about what they were doing, and that she was now always ringing him with more input and ideas! The thing about this pilot work though was that it would be able to be used by all hospitals once it was put together and all patient care would be past , present and future accessible at a touch (I had just been to see a consultant who to compare both my knees had to perform 2 separate and painfully ,pardon the pun, operations to get my info up and it took soooo long…..he said the IT was a shambles and he spent hours every day on it which was time less for patients)……Not only was it going to be able to be used throughout the NHS the whole thing was going to be transferable to other hospitals at the price of normal apps. ……………………………………………………………………………………..Then the Tories got in and the manager who had worked to get this enthusiastic company working in the hospital and tailoring the needs of everyone together to make the IT work for the benefit of staff and patients and managers…..was made redundant and the contract was cancelled. The man who owned the company was almost in tears Louie said as he had to lay the team off and all their good innovative work was just discarded.
I don’t know why I was compelled to tell you all this except for me it sums up the lack of any kind of allegiance this Govt have toward anyone no matter how talented or hard working or innovative they are, how little they understand feedback and how anti British they really are……so there!
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geradine
i like that innovation where has it gone but the idea is to run the nhs into the ground so that it can be privatized….i also know of someone else keen on the integration of medical data to improve out comes…we can only plug away until common sense prevails http://www.truthtrustconsent.com/public_html/medical-comutings …
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It is Steria yet again, in the context of the Ministry of Injustice (formerly Lord Chancellor’s Dept). Steria cock up, then an even bigger contract is awarded to “another” contractor of which Steria is 75%main shareholder. Yet not a single software project in the Courts’ System has ever functioned. Now, the Courts’ Rules a la Jackson have been cocked up. Want is it about Civil Servants and Capital Projects? Do any ever work on time, in budget?
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a repeat performance just like atos rewarded for bad work
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I don’t think the cock up was really made by Steria. Taking millions of pounds from successive UK governments and delivering nothing sounds like an excellent business idea!
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…and money wasted by scumbag Labour… and scumbag Libdems.
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If all these outsourced jobs were brought back home, what would the unemployment figures here be then? I know not all of them would be suitable for all job-seekers but it would make one hell of a difference.
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Tom – I’m sorry, my question was unnecessarily pejorative and rhetorical. I will try again and I hope you will reply…
Did you think about also highlighting the UK government contracts with Steria during the last Labour government?
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Yes actually. But Labour aren’t in government now. And there’s no deficit of information about what Labour did wrong during their time in power in the mainstream press.
Unlike the present government’s actions – such as this – which are often ignored by most of the mainstream press.
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Actually no, you’re wrong – There is almost no information in the mainstream press about the Labour government contracts with Steria. Post some links if you can find any! I think a balanced viewpoint is generally a good thing, but of course what impression you want your blog to give to your chosen audience, and whether you are driving or are being driven, is entirely up to you…
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I’ve had 3 decades of the mainstream press telling me how crap Labour leaders are. The fact that they sometimes do turn out to be crap doesn’t mean I have to join in the pro-Tory bias.
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Correct – You don’t have to join in the establishment pro-Tory bias… OR write stuff which just caters for your mindless, whinging, Tory-bashing audience. What we need is light, not heat, and satire can sometimes light the way. I think you’re much better than this blogpost.
3 decades? Even the Tory media seldom suggested that John Smith was ‘crap’. Like so many left-leaning people I think you were fooled in 1997 and still won’t accept it. I was too for a while. Blair was never a Labour leader, and Miliband will bend any way he’s pushed. The problem is that you’re blindly thinking in terms of parties, not principles. The sooner the UK has PR, and so makes party majority governments the exception rather than the rule, the better.
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Very good point. Instead of the media and govt vilifying the unemployed why aren’t they vilifying the causes of unemployment?
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“mindless, whinging etc etc etc”
Last chance blown. I’m out of here.
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There you go… you just illustrated the need for light, not heat! Feel free to debate the past and future Labour leadership qualities, or just cave in and say “I’m out of here” instead. I assume that means you won’t answer me any more, but I seem to remember that you said that more than once before! Anyone with any brains WANTS to have their views challenged…
I know you’re not going to slag off most of your readership, but I have no problem with doing it. I understand your quandary. I’m exaggerating of course, not all of them are mindless and whinging, or maybe even most of them, but unquestioning partisan rhetoric IS an often-recurring theme.
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But outsourcing services to the cheapest provider and offshoring jobs to the jurisdictions with the lowest wages and the weakest workplace health and safety legislation is what globalization is all about. It’s the New World Order.
Sheesh, soon folks will be demanding that the national government act in the interests of the people who voted for them. How democratic is that when there are teeming masses in the Third World happy and willing to take our jobs for a tenth of what we are paid?
All one can say about all this whinging is that there are still a lot of people who are basically nationalists, you know, racists, like Nazis, who think England is for the English and all that codswallop.
So yes, good ol’ Cameroon is what I say: outsource everything, not just IT and manufacturing but the NHS and all the rest of the public service. Need heart surgery, get on a jumbo jet and have it done in Mumbai or Shanghai at a tenth the European price. As for the bureaucracy, the Indians are no doubt as good as anyone at paper shuffling and they’ll do it for a fraction of what those folks in Whitehall expect to make.
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