[dizzy9]

In the past, expensive contracts like this were handed out as rewards to Tory donors. Help fund the party's re-election, and your company will receive a cushy reward. See also the Cash-for-Honours scandal, where the Labour party were also found giving preference to donors in the selection for lordships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-Honours_scandal

[michaelt]

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-pwc-ey-big-four-natw...

> Labour taking free staff from scandal-hit consulting firms

> [...] The party has quietly accepted more than £230,000 worth of free staff from ‘big four’ accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young (EY) since Keir Starmer took over as leader in 2020.

Still, I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that the ruling party was gifted £230k of free services from PwC, then brought a static website from PwC for £4.1 million of taxpayer money.

[TheOtherHobbes]

In unrelated news Labour quietly dropped its plans to "restructure" the audit industry last week.

[plagiarist]

I wish a fitting comeuppance upon all the grifters taking up a seat which could've been filled by someone actually interested in governance.

[boznz]

"In the Past", Now, and in the future.

[canadiantim]

in every democracy or other system of government, it's the same.