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Story: Gov't scales back e-passport upgrade
Oh Please !!
> IPS chief executive James Hall said in a statement:
> "We are better placed than ever to build on our
> successes in the passport service to deliver the
> National Identity Scheme."
Another glaring example of the "Policy is Truth" effect. Senior civil servant says "XYZ", that is therefore policy, therefore that is now the "Truth" as far as (in this case) the IPS is concerned. Any facts that inconveniently differ from this new Truth must therefore be a lie.
So, the actual truth (note lower case "t") that they couldn't even manage to get a web based application form to work properly, is swept aside in a flood of rhetoric and somehow becomes a pointer towards them now being even more able to successfully complete the largest and most complex database system of it's type to ever be attempted.
Do these people not realise that the more they spin and dissemble, the less confidence the people who pay their wages have that they have the first clue what they are doing. In my conversations with people on the subject of the National Identity Register, one of the tacks I use is that it is to be managed by the same people that sort out the passports. On a number of occasions this alone has been enough to cause a look of horror to pass over their faces and for their opinion about "Those harmless little bits of plastic" to spin 180 degrees.
IPS are one of the best recruiters for no2id out there !!!
( http://www.no2id.org/ )
Andrew Meredith
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