As leaked e-mails today reveal, Tony Blair’s flagship identity card scheme is struggling and could even collapse in an embarrassing shambles. Two years before ID cards are set to be introduced for people renewing their passports, the chances of meeting that timetable look remote. The entire scheme may yet have to be shelved.
I really hope that this is the case. Certainly this would back up earlier intimations that all is not well [just do a search on 'ID_cards' on this blog ...] and that the practicalities could defeat the project before it can really get off the drawing board -or rather onto it since one of the problems appears to be that the government has not even come up with a set of specs for contract bidders to construct their bids to.
Leading article: Saving face over ID - Sunday Times - Times Online:
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