Government warned about Post Office system unreliable in 1998

Some quotes from the article:

"The then Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair, was warned that Horizon was “flawed” and that an “unsatisfactory” deal with suppliers Fujitsu would leave the government “dependent on a hugely expensive, inflexible, inappropriate and possibly unreliable system”."

"These were monstrously big projects, which didn’t involve the users at all in the design process. Even the Post Office management didn’t get to see the software"