alt Hacker NewsDeveloping a replacement system is still going to cost a hell of a lot. It's not like if you dropped palatir then we'd suddenly have a free drop-in replacement and everyone can have their fiver back
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I would rather not hand mine or my neighbours' health data to a spy-tech firm, who will have unlimited access to their data[0].
Not having the system (it's not like it's already in use anyway) is always a good step in the right direction. And a replacement built-in UK will provide more jobs, more tax money, and digital sovereignty for UK.
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/palantir-to-be-granted...
When they first rolled out Universal Credit, they decided to do it using Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
It didn't work very well, so GDS rebuilt it in-house.
Have you considered just not building this kind of thing at all?
You pay money to Palantir that money essentially escapes the economy, you develop a sovereign solution yes you pay millions even more but that goes into corporations and people actually living in the country, paying taxes and spending their coins here.