Civil servants’ dream is a trussed turkey
Not content with losing London on May Day and the safe Labour seat of Crewe and Nantwich yesterday, the Brown regime has hunched its shoulders and pressed ahead with the national ID card scheme that the Conservatives have sworn to cancel when they win the next general election.
Generations of British bureaucrats have yearned for a national ID card system, and their humble servant Gordon Brown is not going to let the little matter of their chronic inability to secure data, and his party being in free fall, divert him from trying to give them their wish.
IBM, Fujitsu, Thales and EDS, are approved to bid for lucrative contracts to be negotiated in 2008. Since the Conservative Party is now odds-on favourite to win the next general election, and is pledged to cancel the scheme, only very generous cancellation terms will tempt any of them to bid.
