In mid-2019, after a ten year slog to replace outdated computer systems, Greater Manchester Police was supposed to have launched their new Capita-designed computer system, “iOPS” (the “Integrated Operational Policing System”) at an initial cost of some £29 million – quickly rising to well over £80 million. Since mid-2019, there’s been a litany of issues…
Category: Stupid Governance
Brexit – a Very British Shambles
Don’t forget – Brexit has, did, does, will and will always mean Brexit.
Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police, proudly running rings around you since you first called them
Christopher bemoans the lack of joined-up thinking which plagues Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police, and their seeming inability or unwillingness to be honest with the people who fund them as soon as they ask the most basic of questions.
Speed limiters proposed for UK cars; stock price of tinfoil skyrockets
Courtesy of lobbyists and uk.gov… News from the I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Utter-Bollocks department: over the past week, plans have once again been quietly introduced to the public to implement voluntary speed limiting systems… In peoples’ cars. This idea is so fundamentally flawed it’s just ridiculous, but I’ll break each point down and explain just how stupid an idea…