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purplecthulhu at 04:46pm on 08/02/2007
purplecthulhu at 04:46pm on 08/02/2007Interesting exchange between the Tories and industry over the last few days.
Tories to IT Industry: our manifesto commitment is to ditch ID cards, so there'll have to be get out clauses in the government contracts in case we win.
IT Industry to Tories: we don't care about no stinking democracy! If you upset our nice little earner we'll get all huffy and won't accept any lucrative contracts from any nasty Tory government.
Of course I paraphrase, but when the situation is such that even David Davis can come up with a decent quote like, "Your claim to be neither for or against the policy of introducing ID cards in the UK, given the clear commercial interest of a number of your members, is simply disingenuous", then one has to be amused.
The vision of IT companies stomping away from the government teat in a fit of pique about their lost ID Card millions, thus allowing their competitors in, is also mildly ludicrous.
Tories to IT Industry: our manifesto commitment is to ditch ID cards, so there'll have to be get out clauses in the government contracts in case we win.
IT Industry to Tories: we don't care about no stinking democracy! If you upset our nice little earner we'll get all huffy and won't accept any lucrative contracts from any nasty Tory government.
Of course I paraphrase, but when the situation is such that even David Davis can come up with a decent quote like, "Your claim to be neither for or against the policy of introducing ID cards in the UK, given the clear commercial interest of a number of your members, is simply disingenuous", then one has to be amused.
The vision of IT companies stomping away from the government teat in a fit of pique about their lost ID Card millions, thus allowing their competitors in, is also mildly ludicrous.
amused