Downing Street Says

Asked how important it was that ID card legislation reached the statute book without being amended to include an independent review of the cost, the PMOS said that in terms of the cost we continued to stick by the costs produced by the Home Office. As Home Office Minister, Andy Burnham had said this morning the costs had been validated by KPMG. We did not recognise the LSE costing, which we believed had been inflated.

Therefore we believed the Government’s cost analysis was a sound one. Asked if that meant the Government believed there was no need for independent analysis, the PMOS said that we had already had the objective analysis from KPMG, which had validated the figures. Put to him that Charles Clarke’s comments saying that support for ID cards had risen was characterised as wishful thinking by the LSE, the PMOS said that question was best put to the Home Office. However if your figures were validated by an outside body, such as KPMG, then that suggested that your analysis was somewhat more than wishful thinking.

If you looked at fraud, the trend in terms of private areas such as banking and the threat from terrorism these were all reasons why ID cards were becoming more, not less relevant as an issue.

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"in terms of the cost we continued to stick by the costs produced by the Home Office"

Which were a wild stab in the dark, and everyone knows it, so why doesn’t the PMOS just shut up?! The reason the Lords rejected the bill was because of lack of clarity on the cost; judging by the PMOS words, if it was up to him he’d turn the bill straight back round and chuck it back at the Lords. What the fuck’s the point in that?!?!

Mark my words people; there is an agenda at work here and it has nothing to do with the electorate of the United kingdom. And you only have yourselves to blame when it all comes to pass, for the signs and all the evidence were there for long enough and most of you did nothing about it, except writing a blank cheque for Bliar the Illuminati Stooge to put in place the mechanisms for One World Government. It ain’t coming? I’m talking shite? Really? Notice how the single EU seems to be still on track – even though it was voted out of the water. Keep waiting…!
Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 17 Jan 2006 on 12:32 pm | Link
"If you looked at fraud, the trend in terms of private areas such as banking and the threat from terrorism these were all reasons why ID cards were becoming more, not less relevant as an issue."

And does PMOS provide any proof for that assertion?

*tumbleweed*
Comment by Owen Blacker — 18 Jan 2006 on 2:57 pm | Link

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