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Six of the eight border IT systems viewed as critical for a no-deal Brexit are at risk of failure, compounded by their reliance on each other and the fact delivery partners aren't ready.
[...] The report, prepared before Prime Minister Theresa May said she would allow Parliament to vote on a possible delay, treats 29 March 2019 as Brexit day – but it is clear some of the issues won't be resolved by a delay of just weeks.
The NAO said that six of the eight IT systems ranked as most critical for no deal by the cross-government Border Delivery Group are "at risk of not being delivered to time and to acceptable quality".
These include Defra's Import of Products, Animals, Food and Feed System (IPAFFS) and Automatic Licence Verification System (ALVS), both of which have their IT components listed as amber-red, and HMRC's CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight), which is ranked as amber.
[*] Linked story was dated 2019-02-28, so it's this month. --Ed.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:55PM (7 children)
The people always vote wrong:
- The choices of society presented to them always end up profiting megarich tax evader fuckers.
- The candidates they get to vote for are always the same critters, whose sole real job it is to do the bidding of the aforementioned megarich tax evading fuckers - and get high on power while they're at it.
In the end, the people always lose. It's just that for some reason, they never seem to realize it: they keep hoping, believing, voting, getting disappointed, then hoping again, believing again, and voting again for the same sumbitches who disappointed them before.
I'll never understand why people think voting is so important. Voting is exactly like pushing those fake crosswalk and elevator buttons [nytimes.com]: you think you've done something, but the outcome has nothing to do with it. Voting is part of the theater that keeps the populace from revolting against the megarich fuckers.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @10:04PM (3 children)
The history of human civilization is a millenia long struggle of ordinary people trying to escape subjugation by powerful people. It's the eternal struggle - the 2 political sides broadly represent the two forces. Go back to every point in history and rulers are crushing little people. In the long game, things have improved for the little people. Government itself is a taming of the absolute power of monarchs. Some want to get rid of govt. I wonder who?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @11:03PM
Libertarians?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @12:02PM
If you think there's only two sides in politics you've already been subjugated, and it's best if you not vote at all. Please?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 04 2019, @11:38PM
Except when it isn't, of course. For a notable historical example, the government of Joseph Stalin did a remarkably poor job of taming Uncle Joe's homicidal paranoia.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Monday March 04 2019, @11:21AM
> The people always vote wrong:
Speak for yourself...
Study history some. Try wikipedia for "Glorious Revolution", "Great Reform Act", "Suffragettes Movement", "Great Strike" for a mix of democratic and non-democratic reform in UK. If the current generations are too indolent to manage the powers that be, then they deserve the powers that be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:10PM
income taxes are for idiots, cowards, traitors and sellouts. which are you?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 05 2019, @11:46PM
Yes, it's too bad that being wealthier, longer lived, freer, etc world-wide doesn't count as winning.