Ah the sweet smell of irony
There's something almost endearingly charming about listening to yet another political mouth-on-a-stick criticising someone—anyone—else for incompetence. It's even more darkly hilarious coming from a government that f***s up every single IT project*¹ it ever touches, costing taxpayers tens of millions.
I'm sure TSB have been playing to the Tory handbook of cost-cutting, cheap half-measures, fat bonuses for the board, screwing the customers at every opportunity and all the other shyte that major corporations do to score short-term returns (yum, especially those nice bonuses: grab it and move to the next fiasco, quick!), while storing up disastrous weaknesses and catastrophic problems for the future.
Anyway, not to worry. None of the senior management who lovingly laid the groundwork for this clusterf**k will be punished; no lessons will be learned; no meaningful regulation will be imposed; lobbyists' enticements and inducements will flow unabated; politicians will continue to dodge responsibility; customers will suffer; and the torrent of lies, evasions and excuses will be epic.
*¹ Er, yes, and everything else it touches, really ... doesn't seem to matter whether it's health, education or defence, you can always trust them to bring their own unique combination of stupidity, arrogance and dishonesty to the table and leave a steaming mess behind.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
