In a move that is seen as a model for local government under a Cameron administration, tory-run Essex County Council is to privatise services through a £5.4 billion deal with IBM. It is claimed that the eight-year contract between the technology giant and local authority will ‘transform’ service delivery and save 20 per cent of the council's annual £1.2 billion budget within three years.
Sounds familiar don’t it? It is to be hoped that Swansea tory Rene Kinzett who led the scrutiny enquiry into the ill-fated Shambles@Swansea IT project has made his party chairman fully aware of the possible downside.
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Thats it new labour will do the same now it's been waiting for the Tories tro do something to copy.
I'm not defending anyone here, however IBM are a large and reputable company which has been concentrating on systemized management of all sorts, such as food waste, water control, electric grid, government. Perhaps they will succeed.
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