Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir(www.thecanary.co)

24 pointsby robtherobber15 days ago8 comments

theptip15 days ago
To be clear, Polanski doesn’t have authority to terminate anything, and this is a letter notifying Palantir that they will be cancelled _if the Greens win_.
Quite misleading title in the article.
maxehmookau15 days ago
I'm not a fan of Palantir being involved in the NHS, but this is just political campaigning.
Polanski is head of a political party with, currently, almost no power in the UK. This is symbolic campaigning. Which is fine, but don't be fooled in to thinking it would change anything.
- rhdunn15 days ago
  And at the next election -- if the current polling stays consistent -- they are likely to get 15-85 seats, which is not enough for them to gain power. Even then they are unlikely to form a coalition as Labour are not doing well in the polls currently, and the gain in support for the greens is largely coming at Labour's expense.
  [1] https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U...
chrisjj15 days ago
Bogus clickbait title. Its claim is unsubstantiated by the article body
stranded2215 days ago
Spin article and not worth reading
chews15 days ago
TACO meets FAFO. Nice to see the Brit’s doing something about this.
- mc3215 days ago
  As if that will stop surveillance and data collection and summonses for the hoi polloi for saying mean things about their elected officials…
  They’ll just hire someone else to do the data collection and analysis for them.
  It’d be awesome if they did actually stop their surveillance but I wouldn’t be too optimistic about it.
crimsoneer15 days ago
Presumably he'll have one of these to Google, Microsoft and AWS anytime now. Oh wait, no, because that won't get him the clickbaity headlines he actually wants rather than actually trying to improve the NHS.
spants15 days ago
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- drcongo15 days ago
  No he didn't.
gadders15 days ago
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- drcongo15 days ago
  No he didn't.
  - crimsoneer15 days ago
    He's apologised for it publicly, so, you know.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Polanski
    James_K15 days ago
    > Polanski also worked as a hypnotherapist. In 2013, a journalist for The Sun requested a hypnotherapy session from him to increase her breast size and body image self-confidence for an article in the paper. Polanski featured in the published article, in which the journalist claimed that her breast size had increased. Polanski has apologised for his involvement, saying that the idea came from the client, that he did not charge for the session, that the therapy was meant to help with bodily self-image rather than physical enlargement, and that the article did not accurately reflect the situation.
    You really just have to read this to see that what you're saying is inaccurate.