tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post7052761044499815211..comments2024-03-18T15:52:46.631+00:00Comments on Liberal England: House Points: Meet Willy-Nilly MilibandJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-64471029371962315382010-05-30T07:15:26.626+01:002010-05-30T07:15:26.626+01:00Actually the net cost of the ID Card scheme as pre...Actually the net cost of the ID Card scheme as presently configured was due to be low: it uses the passport back office and the £30 fee was predicted to cover much of the cost of the enrolment offices. Even the passport scheme recovers a great deal of its costs from the fee that we pay. (This was all explained by Lord Erroll last year.)<br /><br />The huge cost (grossly underestimated by our then once and future govt, so I bought into the LSE estimate of around £10bn - but that was just for deployment, not including operation) was in the "we are watching you" operational organisation, requiring a massive call centre, a million bespoke online terminals (not the 10,000 that govt once told us), and an electronic version of the old East German data repository.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-24094155112056005322010-05-30T07:05:52.123+01:002010-05-30T07:05:52.123+01:00Lilly or Lily? Sorry to be pedantic, but my Mum...Lilly or Lily? Sorry to be pedantic, but my Mum's a Lily.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.com