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Previously on "Technology-based customs system 'could cost £20bn"

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by Bean View Post
    Strange, the usual virtue signallers aren't lambasting you for posting links to racist stuff. I guess you must be an Erikur-lite racist type.
    (I wonder if that link counts as you using the B word Cojak hates, since it's all over the blog?)


    Ps. Brits can and do complain about everything, in case you hadn't noticed....it's something to do with our crap weather
    (Foreigners thinking they're special lol, Brits hate everyone including other Brits)
    They don't. They whinge to each other about things (such as council tax) but they never get off their arses to complain or protest. An average Brit will rather run up a credit card debt than protest.

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  • Bean
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    To give Brexiteers something to complain about as that is what will happen when the government outsource it. They complain about anything foreign yet won't get off their fat lazy arses to do it themselves...

    Actually I was just misappropriating Brexit culture

    Strange, the usual virtue signallers aren't lambasting you for posting links to racist stuff. I guess you must be an Erikur-lite racist type.
    (I wonder if that link counts as you using the B word Cojak hates, since it's all over the blog?)


    Ps. Brits can and do complain about everything, in case you hadn't noticed....it's something to do with our crap weather
    (Foreigners thinking they're special lol, Brits hate everyone including other Brits)

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by Bean View Post
    why did you link to an overtly racist fake blog?
    To give Brexiteers something to complain about as that is what will happen when the government outsource it. They complain about anything foreign yet won't get off their fat lazy arses to do it themselves...

    Actually I was just misappropriating Brexit culture

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  • Bean
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    why did you link to an overtly racist fake blog?

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  • Old Greg
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    Still, a Daily Mail front page showing treasonous civil servants hanged using piano wire should make the gammons feel better.

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post
    £20 billion? It's peanuts compared to the whopping £13 billion we pay in now.

    Let's make "Britain Broke Again".

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post
    £20 billion? It's peanuts compared to the whopping £13 billion we pay in now.

    Let's make "Britain Broke Again".
    It doesn't sound so bad in guineas.

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  • Uncle Albert
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    £20 billion? It's peanuts compared to the whopping £13 billion we pay in now.

    Let's make "Britain Broke Again".

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    And the government have a good track record with getting technology in on time and in budget. Anyone remember the NHS upgrade?

    Let's see...
    1. Engage Big 4 management consultants
    2. Select solution that is most profitable for the consultancy
    3. Project scope drawn up tighter than the proverbial.
    4. Consultancy swaps out their A team for their D team
    5. Consultancy puts in new PMO whose job is to de-scope the critical parts of the project.
    6. Unexpected costs occur due to under-specced hardware, software or consultants
    7. Consultancy succeeds in de-scoping delivery of the project
    8. Implementation and ongoing support for the project works out at >£350 million a week
    9. It's outsourced to France/Germany, paid for with loans from China.

    ...but it's worth it.
    Get in there...

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Brexit - the gift that keeps on giving - if you're looking for comedy gold.

    As WTFH points out, IF the system works perfectly the cost is 20 billion.

    But we all know it won't.

    But hey some clever people are going to make a killing.

    It won't impact on jam, tea and biscuit exports to empire 2.0.

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  • sasguru
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    Brexit - the gift that keeps on giving - if you're looking for comedy gold.

    As WTFH points out, IF the system works perfectly the cost is 20 billion.

    But we all know it won't.

    But hey some clever people are going to make a killing.

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  • WTFH
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    And the government have a good track record with getting technology in on time and in budget. Anyone remember the NHS upgrade?

    Let's see...
    1. Engage Big 4 management consultants
    2. Select solution that is most profitable for the consultancy
    3. Project scope drawn up tighter than the proverbial.
    4. Consultancy swaps out their A team for their D team
    5. Consultancy puts in new PMO whose job is to de-scope the critical parts of the project.
    6. Unexpected costs occur due to under-specced hardware, software or consultants
    7. Consultancy succeeds in de-scoping delivery of the project
    8. Implementation and ongoing support for the project works out at >£350 million a week
    9. It's outsourced to France/Germany, paid for with loans from China.

    ...but it's worth it.

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  • Paddy
    started a topic Technology-based customs system 'could cost £20bn

    Technology-based customs system 'could cost £20bn

    Am I surprised? = No!



    Brexit: Technology-based customs system 'could cost £20bn' - BBC News
    The post-Brexit customs system favoured by Boris Johnson and other leading Brexiteers could cost businesses up to £20bn a year, officials have suggested.

    The chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs told MPs firms would have to pay £32.50 for each customs declaration under the so-called "max fac" solution.

    John Thompson said any new system could take up to five years to fully work.

    No 10 said the £20bn figure was "speculation" but "issues" remained with both options being considered.

    The figure is higher than the £13bn UK contribution to the EU in 2016.

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