Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir

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24 points·robtherobber··12 comments

To be clear, Polanski doesn’t have authority to terminate anything, and this is a letter notifying Palantir that they will be cancelled _if the Greens win_.

Quite misleading title in the article.

I'm not a fan of Palantir being involved in the NHS, but this is just political campaigning.

Polanski is head of a political party with, currently, almost no power in the UK. This is symbolic campaigning. Which is fine, but don't be fooled in to thinking it would change anything.

And at the next election -- if the current polling stays consistent -- they are likely to get 15-85 seats, which is not enough for them to gain power. Even then they are unlikely to form a coalition as Labour are not doing well in the polls currently, and the gain in support for the greens is largely coming at Labour's expense.

[1] https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U...

Bogus clickbait title. Its claim is unsubstantiated by the article body

Spin article and not worth reading

TACO meets FAFO. Nice to see the Brit’s doing something about this.

As if that will stop surveillance and data collection and summonses for the hoi polloi for saying mean things about their elected officials…

They’ll just hire someone else to do the data collection and analysis for them.

It’d be awesome if they did actually stop their surveillance but I wouldn’t be too optimistic about it.

Presumably he'll have one of these to Google, Microsoft and AWS anytime now. Oh wait, no, because that won't get him the clickbaity headlines he actually wants rather than actually trying to improve the NHS.

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