ID card costs rise to £5.31bn

[vicar]

It's all about abuse of power and revenue.

[funke_munke]

I for one will be taking a stand and refusing to get one, my passport is good for 10 years so I can at least leave the country. There is no way I will be forced to buy an ID card.

Same, I have core2 duos to buy god damn!


But seriously though, if you have ever seen the film Brazil... In some crazy roundabout way it seems like this is where we are headed!

[Steven W]

Excuse the bump. I've been reading quite a lot about ID cards in recent weeks and I'll certainly be taking a stand against it.

http://www.no2id.net/

[magneticman]

how much will they cost?

[usxhe190]

At last, now with ID cards, the world is free from terror...all thanks to the brillance of the UK government.

[Saracen]

how much will they cost?

Probably at least triple whatever the last figure the government quoted was, but a fair percentage of the cost will be hidden behind the government's usual spin and 'creative' accounting.

[G4Z]

Then you have the on-going cost for the thing...

[Lee H]

How much would it cost to build a 20 foot concrete wall around the UK with guarded exits at certain places?

I bet it would be cheaper than this fiasco

[Agent]

Brown will 'scrap ID cards' for UK citizens, claims paper | The Register

Yeah, its the reg. Sorry.

[iranu]

I was reading the Torygraph on-line yesterday and they were saying that because the National insurance database was so royally screwed and abused that an ID card system using that data would be worthless. So hopefully it will be unworkable.

Linkage.

[Kezzer]

This is where I say "yay for being foreign".

Unlucky chaps

[Daymonkey]

just a new system, if they don't waste money here they'll only waste it elsewhere(like the NHS etc will ever get more money?).
However i quite condone the fingerprinting etc of young children etc for the eventual reduction of crime and catching of criminals (i feel anyone who rejects such schemes which put noone under pressure really are people who like to break the law but hate others to do so).
Worlds changing innit

[UltraMagnus]

I feel that this whole shambulls is just another way for a corrupt labour government to take more liberty's

i know that there is no way i will be getting one... hell, i have been considering moving country for years anyway...

[G4Z]

Well, I don't know about you but I have changed my mind and am now massively in favor of ID cards, what with all the giga-terror-bits out there. Something must be done!

[usxhe190]

"National identity cards will play an important part, a very important part in countering terrorism, there's no doubt about that," he said. "I mean, one can think of all sorts of reasons one might not like them, but actually, in terms of counter-terrorism, they will be extremely useful."

lol

"Let's face it, 28 days is a long time. But we needed that... And the sheer complexity in terms of numbers of computers, the sort of giga-terror bits of information that need to be looked at... make us feel that maybe this needs to be longer.

lol

[G4Z]

yep, don't know about you but a flat statement that they 'will be extremely useful' is enough for me. There clearly is no need to actually describe how they will be useful at all.