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Author:  bobbdobbs [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
Quote:
NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD SCHEME

As you will be aware, the Conservative Party has stated publicly that it is our intention to cancel the ID card project immediately on our being elected to government.

I am writing to you as one of the companies involved in contracting for the project. I wanted to make it clear to you that our intention to cancel the project remains unchanged. I think it is important that the companies concerned bear this carefully in mind before committing to any long term contracts for the project, since it will not be our intention to proceed with the work if we are elected.

In addition, I wanted to draw your attention to my concerns about the nature of the contracts that are in development.

In March, the Home Secretary announced that the cancellation of two contracts for the national identity scheme, one to upgrade passport application systems, and one for a biometric database, would incur costs of £40 million.

Whilst we do not intend to scrap the programme introducing biometric passports, I wanted to make it clear that we will take an extremely sceptical view of any future contractual arrangements on ID cards that appear to have been put in place simply to tie the hands of a future Government.

In light of this, I urge you to consider very carefully your future involvement in the ID Card project.

Yours sincerely

Chris Grayling

Shadow Home Secretary ®

clicky
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tores send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
Why has Shadow Home Secretary got a Reigstered Trade Mark symbol (®) after it?
Author:  saspro [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tores send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
Is it not Tories? I though you were talking about the Liverpool striker
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
changed my lord and master.

Back OT. I wonder how much the poison pills, that Labour are going to insert, are going to cost us the taxpayer for a system nobody wants.
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:14 pm ]
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i believe the warning letter to business in regard to this matter is good business practice so the companies involved don't invest heavily when it may very well be cancelled

as it would seem that the labour party are headed for greatest election humiliation in parliamentary history …
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:16 pm ]
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MrStevenRogers wrote:
as it would seem that the labour party are headed for greatest election humiliation in parliamentary history …


Good riddance. :twisted:
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
Linux_User wrote:
MrStevenRogers wrote:
as it would seem that the labour party are headed for greatest election humiliation in parliamentary history …


Good riddance. :twisted:


As someone who has to work for a living and can't live off daddy's trust fund, I don't relish another spell under the tories. The tories haven't changed since we voted them out last time and I can't think of a worse party to take over under a recession. We'll all be back to horse & buggy before you know it.
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:01 pm ]
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gavomatic57 wrote:
Linux_User wrote:
MrStevenRogers wrote:
as it would seem that the labour party are headed for greatest election humiliation in parliamentary history …


Good riddance. :twisted:


As someone who has to work for a living and can't live off daddy's trust fund, I don't relish another spell under the tories. The tories haven't changed since we voted them out last time and I can't think of a worse party to take over under a recession. We'll all be back to horse & buggy before you know it.


I remember the last Tory run recession. At least last time you could spit the word “Thatcher” and get some venom out. “Carmeron” just doesn’t have the same effect.
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
gavomatic57 wrote:
Linux_User wrote:
MrStevenRogers wrote:
as it would seem that the labour party are headed for greatest election humiliation in parliamentary history …


Good riddance. :twisted:


As someone who has to work for a living and can't live off daddy's trust fund, I don't relish another spell under the tories. The tories haven't changed since we voted them out last time and I can't think of a worse party to take over under a recession. We'll all be back to horse & buggy before you know it.


At least they know of something called "prudence" when it comes to managing public finances - why do you think they're the most popular party in local government?

The Tories can't do any worse than Labour, and I'd rather live under a Tory government than a Labour one any day - the latter tax working people to death.
Author:  DaftFunk [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:51 pm ]
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Linux_User wrote:
The Tories can't do any worse than Labour, and I'd rather live under a Tory government than a Labour one any day - the latter tax working people to death.


Agreed, although I still don't believe them when they say as soon as they are elected.
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
Linux_User wrote:

At least they know of something called "prudence" when it comes to managing public finances


That's their problem - far too much prudence resulted in decades of underinvestment in health and education and we're still trying to recover from it.
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
gavomatic57 wrote:
Linux_User wrote:

At least they know of something called "prudence" when it comes to managing public finances


That's their problem - far too much prudence resulted in decades of underinvestment in health and education and we're still trying to recover from it.


Still trying to recover from it? If the government borrows much more we'll be bankrupt! :shock:
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
the local con's in my area are so prudent that we have had no street lighting for 3 years and no road repairs for 5 years …
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tories send strongly worded letter about ID scheme
MrStevenRogers wrote:
the local con's in my area are so prudent that we have had no street lighting for 3 years and no road repairs for 5 years …


Count yourself lucky. Despite being (one of the) the poorest regions in England Cornwall is a net contributor to the Treasury and our Council gets far below the national average funding from central government (per head of population).
Author:  JJW009 [ Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:17 am ]
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MrStevenRogers wrote:
no street lighting


I'm not a tory supporter, but my local council is tory. My friend reported a faulty street light on-line and within a week it had been fixed.

I'm not sure the street lamp department is particularly bothered by who's in power, or do you mean the torys actually switched them all off?? If so, that's balmy.
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