A free society?
NO2ID quotes the Telegraph, which cuts to the chase of the ID debate – that the ID card offers no real benefits (every single reason put forward by the Government has been extensively debunked) but will fundamentally change the relationship between the state and its subjects in the UK.
There’s also a mention of the Bill on The Register, which deals with the more mundane questions of cost. Needless to say, the Government’s estimate (which has no public evidence supporting it) is far below even the lowest estimate that the London School of Economics could make. Far from £93 per head, the LSE estimates a lowest cost of £170 per head and a median cost of £230. The high end of their estimate is towards £300.
For a scheme with no clear objective (certainly no fixed objective), that’s two very high costs to pay.
pax et bonum
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