This delay is yet another example of Home Office inability to operate computer systems, and if they cannot get a relatively simple system for a firearms register like this to work so many years after such an awful disaster, what hope is there for the vast system needed to make identity cards work?

Alistair Carmichael
Orkney and Shetland MP
March 5, 2006
Dunblane gun crackdown 'a failure'
News.Scotsman.com
[There is no hope of a system of national identity cards working.  If you have doubts read this.--Joe]