Thread by @Dominic2306

I wrote in 2014 how MoD procurement was horrific & having delved v deeply into it 2019-20, incl nuclear, it was *even worse in every way than even I said*. MoD/services full of people who understand but add this to list of things this no10 will ignore not fix

https://twitter.com/FTusa284/status/1455843216478113800

Also bear in mind this report does not go into classified stuff like the nuclear infrastructure which is *MUCH worse* than the worst of this report! Both parties & senior Whitehall have allowed this rot to continue. Breaking this cycle was another reason why Vote Leave did Brexit

In 2020 the CABSEC & I, with CHX support, ran a secret 'tunnel' outside normal processes to establish the first numbers agreed by HMT/CABOFF/MoD to be honest for >20 yrs. The problems in MoD have been horrific & consistently covered up by Parliament, not exposed

Also NB mainstream econ analyses of Brexit unanimously refuse to consider the huge disaster of EU procurement law, how it incentivises huge waste, incompetence, corruption, structurally biased towards big powerful lobbying operations etc & the gains of ditching

Is a lot of procurement horror *our* fault, not Brussels? Of course. But the underlying framework is EU law & was madness to extend it to MoD. A serious new system requires both ditching EU foundations & SW1's horrific embellishments