Richard

UK

Taxpayer

Expensive, dangerous white elephant:

This projected 5.5Bn pounds, plus the extra required for card readers etc., plus the usual cost overruns will produce not a single hospital bed, school teacher or policeman on the beat.

It will increase the “productivity” of neither the public sector nor industry.

Inevitably, most of the cost will be spent on imported equipment and on foreign owned IT companies.

The recent LSE report demonstrated that ID cards will deliver none of the claimed benefits – even if the project is successful – and will seriously damage society.

Why pursue such an expensive, dangerous white elephant.