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"Ministers have likely already left it too late to shake Palantir loose from government entirely. They have invited the viper into their nest, and they’re even paying it to be there. "The choice now is whether to ignore the problem entirely, and just play nice, or whether to face reality."

thenewworld.co.ukPalantir boasts its AI will harm Labour voters. Why doesn’t Starmer kick it out?CEO Alex Karp said the quiet part out loud in an interview. Yet his company is still embedded in our NHS and defence

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Every day for the last two and a half years the news has been filled, 24/7, with the Worst Tech Demo in History. We're seeing Israel and ICE acting on every output and the accuracy is shockingly bad - usable only by gangster states more concerned with volume than truth. Also: Palantir are fascists.

Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson have been lobbying for this firm. Their founder is close friends with Elon Musk. Their UK CEO is the grandson of Oswald Mosley and he has a seat on the MODs industrial council. Like every red light imaginable was already shining even before these comments by him.

I know it might cost the government to kick Palantir to the curb. But I think the cost of keeping them is higher in terms of risk and further contracts. This government needs to make it a priority to remove them.

It's not like the current US administration likes or respects the UK anyway. So who cares if the orange felon doesn't like it.