I love the UK Gov for being so transparent and self suficient on their digital infrastructure compared to my developed EU country where they usually just outsource it to some major consultancy, who's in bed with the politicians, which then farms it out to the cheapest bidder in Eastern Europe for 10x the amount of money it would cost to make it themselves and getting 10x worse quality, just so that taxpayer money gets funneled into the politically friendly business pockets. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses/externalities.
I remember there was a heated debate last year about greed-flation in the country as people blamed the large retailers for simultaneously jacking up prices in sync leading to much higher prices on the same goods compared to neighboring Germany and the government said "well, we could build an online price comparison system to track prices and then check the validity of these claims, but oh shucks it's probably gonna take us a few years and double digit million euros...", and then in response some guy builds it in a weekends and posts it on Github for free, showing how corrupt, clueless and scummy closed source government funded digital projects are.
I remember there was a heated debate last year about greed-flation in the country as people blamed the large retailers for simultaneously jacking up prices in sync leading to much higher prices on the same goods compared to neighboring Germany and the government said "well, we could build an online price comparison system to track prices and then check the validity of these claims, but oh shucks it's probably gonna take us a few years and double digit million euros...", and then in response some guy builds it in a weekends and posts it on Github for free, showing how corrupt, clueless and scummy closed source government funded digital projects are.