xrayzebra
07-16-2006, 09:53 AM
Most British citizens had ID cards during WWII and for a period after it. So
guess they aren't too concerned that it is coming back. But with all the
bitching here about the government listening into "international" calls and
"international" banking transactions, I don't thing it would fly here. Or
am I wrong?
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LONDON
16/07/06 - News section
Blair: ID card scheme will go ahead
The Prime Minster has insisted that the Government's ID cards programme is going ahead - and at the same pace as before.
His assurance comes after it emerged last week that a crucial stage of the controversial project has been postponed.
Tendering of contracts for the multi-billion-pound programme - which will force every adult in Britain to give fingerprint and iris scans - has been put off until at least the end of the year.
Computer Weekly magazine disclosed that the delay will mean the scheme is highly unlikely to be running by 2008 as planned.
It also emerged that the project is likely to be dramatically simplified.
Challenged that it had been effectively scrapped, Mr Blair insisted: "The story on ID cards is wrong."
He told BBC1's Politics Show: "Our programme for identity cards will continue."
Asked if it would do so at the same pace, he replied: "At the same pace."
The Prime Minister said a timetable had been set for the project, adding: "The only reason we shifted a little bit back was because of the lateness of the Parliamentary assent, but don't be under any doubt at all.
"This is what's so absurd about the Conservative position, or parts of the media that oppose identity cards and yet say to us track the illegal in the country - there is no way you're going to be able to track people who are in this country without identity cards."
Find this story at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA87082181153048162A0?version=1
©2006 Associated New Media
guess they aren't too concerned that it is coming back. But with all the
bitching here about the government listening into "international" calls and
"international" banking transactions, I don't thing it would fly here. Or
am I wrong?
Click here to print
This is
LONDON
16/07/06 - News section
Blair: ID card scheme will go ahead
The Prime Minster has insisted that the Government's ID cards programme is going ahead - and at the same pace as before.
His assurance comes after it emerged last week that a crucial stage of the controversial project has been postponed.
Tendering of contracts for the multi-billion-pound programme - which will force every adult in Britain to give fingerprint and iris scans - has been put off until at least the end of the year.
Computer Weekly magazine disclosed that the delay will mean the scheme is highly unlikely to be running by 2008 as planned.
It also emerged that the project is likely to be dramatically simplified.
Challenged that it had been effectively scrapped, Mr Blair insisted: "The story on ID cards is wrong."
He told BBC1's Politics Show: "Our programme for identity cards will continue."
Asked if it would do so at the same pace, he replied: "At the same pace."
The Prime Minister said a timetable had been set for the project, adding: "The only reason we shifted a little bit back was because of the lateness of the Parliamentary assent, but don't be under any doubt at all.
"This is what's so absurd about the Conservative position, or parts of the media that oppose identity cards and yet say to us track the illegal in the country - there is no way you're going to be able to track people who are in this country without identity cards."
Find this story at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA87082181153048162A0?version=1
©2006 Associated New Media