[dasil003]

That's so frustrating. The GDS is one of the shining beacons of government tech done right, I was very impressed with their work and team when I lived in London from 2011-2014.

I guess HMRC took one look and said "this not sufficiently bureaucratic for our needs". In general I liked the HMRC much better than the IRS, but I was sort of shocked to receive a paper cheque for my refund as it was the only time I ever saw a check in the UK. They have their ways I guess.

[GordonS]

GDS has a great blog[1] which I recommend, and have published a lot of stuff to GitHub too[2]. I never imagined the words 'government' and 'IT' could be used in the same sentence without laughing before learning about this group.

Whenever I read of yet another multi-billion pound failed IT project by SAIC or the like, I always wonder why on earth they didn't just let GDS at it.

[1]https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk [2]https://github.com/alphagov