The Herald's revelations concerning the abandonment of a new computer system for our police services came as no surprise ("IT weapon to fight crime scrapped at cost of £8 m", August 15)
This is far from the first such IT procurement fiasco, following on from similar disasters in recent years affecting passport applications, student loans, school examinations, and even air traffic control.
As the bumbling, hopeless narrative emerges may I suggest to those concerned with future acquisitions that the Government simply employs the computer systems used for the collection of my income tax, national insurance, council tax and VAT – which function with continuing relentless perfection.
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