10 Nov 2008

You and your cost report

"So they’re getting cheaper”, said Winifred Robinson. That was a few weeks ago on Radio 4’s You and Yours, the consumers’ champion, heir to the great Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life!.

If fingerprinting is outsourced, a billion pounds comes off the Home Office’s budget for ID cards. Yes, Winifred, but that doesn’t make ID cards cheaper. The fingerprinting still has to be paid for. By you and yours.

Following Winifred’s logic, if all IPS services were outsourced, the NIS wouldn’t just be cheaper. It would be free. Can anyone believe that?

 
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