I wouldn't be surprised if this Palantir stuff involves an extremely onerous contract, and probably terms that the NHS cannot even afford long term, and the Tories knowingly entered into it any way.
while somehow simultaneously providing it with the most amount of funding ever:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/632289/nhs-england-healt...
but even with these colossal amounts, it’s still underfunded according to the BMA:
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...
W Bush did the same thing with the Medicare expansion -- somehow the anti-Socialist party expanded social welfare benefits... to the one group that would vote for them.
Can you explain how someone can "hate the NHS" while drowning them in cash far beyond what they need to operate?
Drowning them in cash that they have siphoned off to their own cronies and companies that give their MPs kickbacks.
Not unlike this Palantir contract, which is probably going to be Greensill II
By that I mean it is impressive how this could happen in one of the foremost liberal society with a large well-funded media representing the whole political spectrum, fiercely adversarial two-party politics, respect for institutional whistleblowers (so long as they don't involve foreign policy) and finally an independent civil service. All of those layers failed to put a stop to this or even to shed an intense light on it for the public. Far more than the conservatives had failed to let this get through.
In fact what is amazing is the public barely aware of its existence as a news story. Try asking a few of your non-tech friends about it. Even the twitter mob failed on this.
I'm reasonably sure the UK media tilts mostly rightwards with only a tiny strand on the left and a small chunk of centrism.
Also performed by the conservative government?
I mean that sets the precedent for kick-backs as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if, after losing the next election, a bunch of sitting Conservative MPs go and mysteriously work for Palantir (Greensill all over again and - oh and hey, David Cameron's reputation is being rehabilitated right now by having him in government again, funny that)