This is especially naive given that the problems with the Horizon system started in 1999, when the Labour Party was in power, and extended to the end of the coa

This is especially naive given that the problems with the Horizon system started in 1999, when the Labour Party was in power, and extended to the end of the coalition government, in which a Liberal Democrat was postal minister and a Conservative was Prime Minister. Part of the problem is that MPs are on average too old, too stupid, or too reactive to actually understand technology, but another part is that they are incapable almost entirely of engaging with a deep problem if it doesn’t have a soundbite for the Today show. “The Thick of It” was more of a documentary than many realise.