Can someone explain to me how the fuck my government can spend <i>15.8bn</i>[1] on a software project? We could build 5 Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers for that. Five! For the cost of a bloated Java app!<p>Seriously, someone fill me in please. How can a software project possibly ever cost more than a billion pounds? You could employ 20,000 software engineers full time for £50K ($70k) a year for that much, and I expect the number of engineers working on Universal Credit is much lower than that and paid less.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Credit#Costs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Credit#Costs</a>