The markets are pricing in the fact that everyone in current politics, other than the current PM/Chancellor is either magic money tree’ers or populists who will balloon the debt (see US) (View Post)

Oh sure. The same mentality at work. But the ID card schemes become attempts to speed run decades of this. Every time. (View Post)

It’s the utterly mental scope creep every time. An ID card system could be *one* table in a database - might need a bit more, but not much. Simple website to access the data. A few endpoints. But not… (View Post)

It’s the utterly mental scope creep every time. An ID card system could be *one* table in a database - might need a bit more, but not much. Simple website to access the data. A few endpoints. But not… (View Post)

The politicians have all converged on populism/focus group crap. No one is selling a thought out program. No wonder people are saying it’s time for 52 card pickup. (View Post)