El Reg has an article that ID Cards may be doomed, according to some leaked e-mails from Whitehall. This was originally broken by the Sunday Times.
Well, it’s a welcome beating with the reality stick for Mr Blair’s lackys. Countless people, including myself, have been writing, campaigning, and generally doing everything we can to say it’s a Bad Idea, badly conceived, badly planned, poorly structured and completely unnecessary, not to mention being more of a security risk in itself. Talk about a sledgehammer cracking a nut. And almost all of this would appear to be becoming the case inside Whitehall, if the story has even a modicum of truth.
But I fear it’s not going to stop Blair and his coherts until the “waste-o-meter” reaches the billions of pounds. There are too many political careers nailed to the “ID Cards” banner, including the PM-in-waiting Gordon Brown. Plus there’s a ’stealth’ ID cards system already coming along through the passport system.
Whilst all this potentially bad news for us the tax payer, for the campaigners it is at least some good news as it clearly demonstrates that the arguments being made opposing ID cards were based on sound argument and reason.
For more on the whole farce, visit no2id (Why Not? is a good intro to the issues). If you’ve a minute or two longer, you might also be interested in my article on why ID Cards are to be feared.
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July 11th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
[...] Following on from the news that Whitehall staffers are concerned about the scheme, the wider media is beginning to pick things up, including the BBC. I had seen this excellent piece in the Guardian only moments before my friend Ben sent it over to me suggesting I link to it. [...]