KIlling ID cards and the NIR – the Tory and LibDem plans
John Lettice, writing in The Register, analyses the main opposition parties’ plans for the National Identity Register (should they be elected). He concludes:
Overall, though, the picture is fairly positive. Both major opposition parties clearly are going to kill the NIR project in addition to dropping ID cards, and what they’re saying makes it clear that they’re going to have to rein-in IPS as well in order to deliver. IPS’ quest to become the UK’s standard identity services broker will, unless Labour gets back in, be over. Neither party seems yet to be fully on top of the technicalities of ‘biometric’ passports, but they both seem to be in the right ballpark, and with the right advice they’ll surely get there.
July 9th, 2009 at 18:57
A tentative *yay* to that then. I really don’t see many more important issues at the moment than this one, personally.
July 10th, 2009 at 17:23
If we do mange to kill the ID card programme and the NIR, what is to stop the next Labour government bringing it all in again. Can anyone tell me how we destroy the NIR and keep it destroyed.
July 11th, 2009 at 22:36
“If we do mange to kill the ID card programme and the NIR, what is to stop the next Labour government bringing it all in again. Can anyone tell me how we destroy the NIR and keep it destroyed”
Eternal vigilence. Why has the Poll Tax not come back? Because politicians know that there would be blood on the streets were it ever to be reintroduced.