In article ,
Mark writes:
As an IT consultant myself I can see the whole project going massively
over budget and probably be abandoned eventually because it never
works.

It's rather rare for the government to abandon a project which
doesn't work. That requires both:
a) An admission it didn't work, and
b) A realisation that it's best abandoned.
It's rare to see either one of these in practice, leave alone both.

--
Andrew Gabriel