Earlier this month, Palantir came to Parliament to meet with MPs.
Richard Fuller who met with Palantir said:
This is an American tech company that does great work improving efficiency in our NHS, enabling local councils to fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities more effectively and helping our police catch more criminals and cut back on bureaucracy.
It was good to catch up with Joe Cunningham from Palentir and Dan Stewart from Bedfordshire Police at Palantir's recent Parliamentary Drop-in event and hear about some of the work being done, including playing a key role in speeding the process for firearms licensing renewals.
Yet the Left hate Palantir.
There is a concerted attempt by Left wing activists to undermine the work this company is doing to get higher productivity and better value for money from public services.
They make fake arguments about risks from giving access to British data to an American company (like we don’t do that everyday on social media), to saying those tasks should be done by a British firm rather than an American one (great, show me the British firm that can do the work as effectively!).
Truth is: the Left just don’t like technologies, like those offered by Palantir and others, that are part of the answer to reducing waste and inefficiency in our public services.
The Left want to hold us back and tax you more. I don’t.
Palantir software is used extensively in the UK public sector to help deliver better public services, including increasing the number of operations that NHS Trusts are able to perform, helping the Royal Navy keep ships at sea for longer, or enabling police forces to deal more effectively with organised crime. It works by enabling the organisations who use it to bring together the data they already hold, but that is spread across disparate, siloed, IT systems which, until now have been unable to talk to each other.
