On Fri, 20 May 2005 10:24:34 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:


"Kieran Mansley" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:36:53 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:

Not that I can see ID cards solving anything....

Perhaps not but I can't see them doing any harm either. It's worth a try.


It's a pretty expensive thing to just try and see if it does anything!
Can't you think of anything else that you'd rather see 3 billion ukp spent
on?

There may be financial benefits. You don't know until it's tried.

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? If there were a potential very large reward,
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.

Kieran