The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3QFBC)
Carrillion was the UK government's go-to outsourcing partner, a company with a long and disgraceful history of putting profits before people -- perhaps that's why HM Government was so ready to believe in the company's robust financial health as it amassed 7B in debts and then collapsed, spectacularly, leaving the UK in financial and infrastructural disarray. (more")