The Independent reports that while Gordon Brown does not oppose the ID cards legislation in principle, the ballooning costs worry him deeply, and that even if the bill were passed, Mr Brown would repeal it when he becomes Prime Minister: Charlie Whelan, Mr Brown’s former press secretary, said the ID card scheme would get an [...]
Management Consultancy magazine exclusively reports that the Home Office has so far spent £17m on its ID cards scheme, with £12m going to a single company, PA Consulting. This despite the ID cards bill having barely started its journey through parliament. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Home Office told Management [...]
A poll by YouGov for The Telegraph, conducted between 28th & 30th June, finds that public support-in-principle for ID cards has fallen again, to 45%. When costs are factored in, support falls even lower: However YouGov’s latest findings are presented, only between a quarter and a tenth of British citizens want to see this Government, [...]
In an interesting comment piece in the Sunday Times, Michael Portillo compares the state of the Poll Tax in 1987 with Identity Cards today: In 1987 Margaret Thatcher occupied Downing Street and her ill-fated bill enacted the poll tax. Today Tony Blair presses on with identity cards. I have seen this movie before and I [...]
Political Betting has some good discussion of the liklihood of ID legislation getting through. Bookmakers, in setting odds based on the behaviour of their punters, are often more accurate in gauging the outcome of general elections than opinion pollsters. I wonder how they will do with this legislation. Also the page has a rather amusing [...]
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