Like Marxism in the Soviet Union

argues that IT spending should be included, as this is largely determined by consultants. On that basis, new Labour has spent £70 billion on consultants since 1997 – the equivalent of perhaps 150 hospitals or about 140m pieces of body armour. […]

[A]s one academic commented, consultancy has become like Marxism in the Soviet Union: nobody believes in it, but everybody must pretend to.