A recent letter to a local Tottenham newspaper - hopefully to be published

Dear Sir

I would like to express my concern that, following the recent Budget, no mention was made to abolishing the terrible ID card scheme. Why should the Government waste so much taxpayer’s money on something that will do little to protect us and so much to reduce our civil liberties and privacy? Similar to the giant, failed, NHS computer records scheme, this Government seems incapable of executing any project successfully and always involves significant expense for the taxpayer. Also, instead of selling off the Student Loan Book to a private company with the probable inherent risk of increased interest loan debts for students, why doesn’t it just abandon its failed ID Card scheme?

A Conservative Government would abandon the ID card scheme project.

Yours faithfully,

Tim Caines
Conservative Council Candidate for Harringay Ward