I've often thought that the British government should have an in-house team of developers to work on services for local authorities and public facing institutio

I've often thought that the British government should have an in-house team of developers to work on services for local authorities and public facing institutions. It seems every time a contractor gets involved the tax-payer gets a good fucking, think of all the accrued billable hours taken up by redundant layers of manglement pontificating, the endless reworks and finally the extortionate support contract to keep the end product limping along.