(it's not
satire - it's ATOS)
Bungling government contractor ATOS have
just been told by Labour that they're going to be sacked if Ed
Miliband's party wins the next election.
ATOS announced over a week ago that it had hired PR firm Edelman to "emphasise other
strengths" of its businesses so it seems they already knew the writing was on
the wall.- at least as far as its extremely lucrative contracts to conduct work
capability assessments on behalf of the DWP are concerned.
Edelman - the world's largest PR company -
will apparently try to develop the firm's standings in technology and media.
I presume the first thing Edelman will try
to do is to persuade prospective clients in the technology and media sectors
that they should forget the sheer criminal incompetence of ATOS in its attempts to
fulfil the DWP contracts - something which has cost the UK taxpayer at least £754m in wasted fees.
Edlelman might be the world's most
powerful PR company - it's employed by Murdoch's News International to help him dig
himself out of the phone hacking cesspit - but we mere mortals will just
have to make sure Edelman doesn't succeed in the case of ATOS, won't we?
Lest we ever forget.
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