Earlier today the Government was forced to admit that the cost of its planned national identity card scheme had risen to more than £5.6 billion over the next ten years - up £71 million since May.
If the situation wasn’t bad enough, I might also remind you that last year no higher authority than the London School of Economics suggested the final set up figure could be closer to £20 billion.
All of this is despite the glaring lack of evidence to suggest ID cards will really do anything meaningful to assist in the fight against terrorism or illegal working.
In a period of increasingly scarce resources, might it not be a better idea to spend a significant proportion of this money on improving Yorkshire’s creaking transport system which is already hugely underfunded in comparison to London and the South East?
Our roads are approaching gridlock, our trains are massively overcrowded and still the Government remains unwilling to come forward with the levels of funding that we need to get this part of the country moving again.
Ignoring the problem is simply not an option – we need action and we need cash.
The alternative for commuters and businesses in this region is complete chaos, a situation we are already approaching rapidly.
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