Gaby Hinsliff and Toby Helm write on the front page of the Observer: The climbdown [on MP's expenses] came as Stephen Byers, a former cabinet minister, called on Brown to scrap ID cards and the replacement of the Trident missile programme because of the recession, warning that it would be a “fraud on the electorate” [...]
Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: Every phone call, email or website visit will be monitored by the state under plans to be unveiled next week. The proposals will give police and security services the power to snoop on every single communication made by the public with the data then likely to be stored [...]
Independent commentators and politicians from the SNP, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats all identify Database State projects as primary candidates for post-budget public spending cuts. STV reports an exchange in the Scottish Parliament between Scottish Labour leader in Holyrood Iain Gray and First Minister Alex Salmond, SNP: Mr Gray challenged him to follow the lead set [...]
Echoing other commentators, Edward Heathcoat Amory writes in the Daily Mail with some thoughts on cutting public spending: And why not scrap the £6billion ID cards project, which will do nothing to help tackle terrorism or immigration, and – like nearly every other government IT project – almost certainly won’t work anyway?
Comment writers in the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph agree on a few things about Wednesday’s budget. Mary Riddell writes in the Telegraph: Mr Darling would, if copying Lloyd George, create a bonfire of the inanities and throw on the fripperies of the good-time years, such as Trident (replacement cost £65 billion), ID cards and [...]
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