Mary Fisher wrote:

"Kieran Mansley" wrote in message

My point is that there are many other things that we could spend that
money on that would be much more likely to result in a benefit. Why risk
such a large amount of money on something when there are so many other
better uses for the cash?


Such as?

We - the population - won't feel it.

You are joking I take it...?

They are talking 3bn now - that is before they start the most ambitious
IT project the govt has ever tackled. They have already sowed the seeds
of its failure because the can not define what its requirements are, and
more importantly, even establish what it is intended to achieve.

Given their track record on complex IT systems we can say with a good
level of confidece that it a) won't work to start with, b) will cost
several times more than projected to get it to a stage where it limps along.

then the risk might be worth it, but there is no potential very large
reward that I'm aware of, so on balance I don't think the risk is worth
it.


We're not all money minded ...

Does that mean you are prepared to pay *any* price for something you want?

You also say that as if there is some higher moral or ethical reason for
needing an id database. What is it?

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Cheers,

John.

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