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UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
- RealCodingOtaku 5mo agoGood, now let's drop the Palantir's contract with NHS.
- sonu27 5mo agoThis is what I thought this post was about originally
- pu_pe 5mo agoUK Government Kicks Out Palantir* *in one specific contract
- petesergeant 5mo agoI mean it’s a big reach to use that title for the actual content, but a good find nevertheless
- fiftyacorn 5mo agoId 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
- fmajid 5mo agoFor 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 5mo agoSort 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 5mo agoDevolution 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.
- nephihaha 5mo agoThe 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.
- altmanaltman 5mo agoThe title makes it seem like they're personally escorting Alex Karp away from the UK to his Colorado monastery.
- ZiiS 5mo agoReplacing one tiny contract, on what sound like performance criteria, is not close to kicking them out.
- sanjayjc 5mo agoExactly. 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 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
- oldfuture 5mo ago70 points in 45 minutes and not on the frontpage anymore? anyone minds to explain why?
- r721 5mo agoDupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251
- tomhow 5mo agoComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251.