Rishi Sunak reportedly blocked from higher benefit rise by ageing IT system – Chancellor considered rise of more than 3.1% but was told he could only do it ‘once a year’ due to 40-year-old system
Rishi Sunak reportedly blocked from higher benefit rise by ageing IT system – Chancellor considered rise of more than 3.1% but was told he could only do it ‘once a year’ due to 40-year-old system
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Fucking hell is there anything in government that runs efficiently. Besides expenses claims ?
The good old I’d love to but I can’t excuse
Computer says no 😯
Sounds like bullshit, like the time they tried to blame exam grade fuckups on a rogue algorithm.
What do you expect when a .xls file format was found to the cause of missing covid results?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are governmental terminals still running Windows 7.
so their excuse is ‘*computer says no*’?
fecking hell thought we’d moved on from Little Britain ><
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Oh no! I’m sure there was no possible way he could have circumnavigated that system if he really wanted to!
40 Year old? What, did the tape snag and unravel when taking it out of the fucking Spectrum?
After all the money pissed up the wall on new IT and development for the Universal Credit programme? Fetch my retractable baton.
This sounds like propaganda and blame shifting.
What an obvious lie.
Sounds like he had an excuse to not do so and cba to click the button. Also, replace the system. Funny how cash can be found for MPs’s expenses or anything that benefits them but cash for outside of london or helps people isn’t there.
Give him nothing but a “You’re fired” letter.