From a comment at Tim Worstall:
I am just stunned that they designed a computer system that allows “junior” to export that much raw data.
‘They’ didn’t.
It will have been designed (if that’s the right word) by the shower of shits that the contract was awarded to; CAP Gemini, Fujitsu, ASPIRE, etc.
All the useless IT consultancy companies that have been responsible for all government’s failing and non-fit-for-purpose IT systems for the last 15 years.
I’ve worked with CAP Gemini, Fujitsu and the like. I couldn’t agree more about such arse-covering, paper-pushing body-shop jobsworths.
