Francis Maude – all talk, no trousers?

Government minister Francis Maude is claiming he will clamp down on wasteful and expensive public-sector IT contracts. But a source has told me that Maude recently had a meeting with bosses of French IT firm CapGemini – the idiots responsible for HMRC’s latest disaster where five million of us paid the wrong amount of tax thanks to CapGemini’s bungling incompetence.

Did tough guy Francis Maude demand compensation from CapGemini? Did he heck? According to my sources, CapGemini’s bosses walked all over Maude and will make so many hundreds of millions from us over the next few years that they could hardly stop laughing when they finished ‘negotiating’ with the hopeless Maude, a man who appears to be all talk and no trousers.