UK Government Kicks Out Palantir

tomhow 5 days ago |

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251.

ZiiS 5 days ago |

Replacing one tiny contract, on what sound like performance criteria, is not close to kicking them out.

sanjayjc 5 days ago | |

Exactly. It wasn't obvious until I read the linked BBC article [1] that:

"Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts"

It is noteworthy that a government department decided it could meet its requirements without a 3rd party provider. Could be the start of a trend but a wholesale move away from PLTR this isn't.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o

altmanaltman 5 days ago |

The title makes it seem like they're personally escorting Alex Karp away from the UK to his Colorado monastery.

RealCodingOtaku 5 days ago |

Good, now let's drop the Palantir's contract with NHS.

sonu27 5 days ago | |

This is what I thought this post was about originally

pu_pe 5 days ago |

UK Government Kicks Out Palantir*

*in one specific contract

petesergeant 5 days ago |

I mean it’s a big reach to use that title for the actual content, but a good find nevertheless

fiftyacorn 5 days ago | |

Id originally thought the nhs contract covered the whole UK, but the devolved governments in Scotland and Wales arent covered

I honestly feel an English assembly covering NHS wouldnt of allowed it

nephihaha 5 days ago | | |

The Scottish NHS has always been separate, but Wales' has diverged since devolution. The east of Wales has a long border with England... The north east is near Liverpool so a lot of people travel there for major services. Some people in the far south of Scotland go to Carlisle in England for maternity services etc but this is less common.

fmajid 5 days ago | | |

For all practical purposes Westminster is also the English Assembly, so there is no reason to believe a putative devolved English Assembly would have decided otherwise. Now, a devolved Northern English Assembly, that would be far more interesting.

fiftyacorn 5 days ago | | |

Sort of but then you have the west lothian question, about Scottish or Welsh MPs voting on English issues. For instance these MPs should never have voted on student loans

nephihaha 5 days ago | | |

Devolution came about because of the reverse. Parts of Wales were flooded to provide England with water, which destroyed Treweryn and other communities... All but one Welsh MP voted against that. There were many times during the 1980s and even when Margaret Thatcher introduced legislation that was unpopular in Scotland. The Poll Tax was the culmination of this, and was imposed on Scotland before anywhere in the UK.

England can outvote Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland's MPs combined so the West Lothian Question is not as big of an issue for England as the reverse.

oldfuture 5 days ago |

70 points in 45 minutes and not on the frontpage anymore? anyone minds to explain why?

r721 5 days ago | |

Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251