Data Handling Procedures in Government: Interim Progress Report

[Ian Batten]

On 18 Jan 2008, at 21:11, Peter Tomlinson wrote:
>
> The really annoying thing is that I'm convinced that the intention  
> at the top is for service delivery to be done properly.

Today is MoD, plus a load of DWP paper on a roundabout near Exeter  
(and the guy who found them is presumably one of the large band of ex- 
PoWs who settled in the area after the war, to judge from his name and  
his mixed German/Exeter accent: perhaps, ob.crypto, he used an Enigma  
machine).  I think we can assume that ID cards are dead.

A colleague, a Labour activist, posits a different reason why Gordon  
is sticking up for ID cards: perhaps he's counting all the spending  
promises the Tories make using the proceeds of cancelling the scheme,  
until he can cancel the scheme himself and torpedo the whole lot...

ian