The process of putting contracts to establish the [ID card and NIR] scheme out to tender - which software suppliers expected in March - has been put back indefinitely.
And the Scotsman notices that the scheme doesn't get a mention in the government's plans for counter terrorism any more.
Key quote "Clearly ID cards play no part in the thinking of the Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Directorate, despite all the national security claims made during the passage of the Identity Cards Bill through Parliament." - Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the No2ID campaign
And John Lettice in the Register goes further and proclaims the death of the ID scheme.
So outcomes - Blair accepts he's been overwhelmed by the facts and backs off, or Shouty Blair resumes and a rebodged version collapses some more in the run-up [to a 2010 general election], or even as a contributory factor to, his departure. Whatever, ding dong, the megaglitch is dead.I do hope that the rumours of its death are not exagerrated. Now we need to get it off the statute books so it can't be resurrected.
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