From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 25/06/2018 17:19, John Hill wrote:   
   > When I think of all the fuss there was over the failed ID card venture a   
   > few years ago, the original national issue in 1939 was organised with   
   > extreme dispatch and no fuss over human rights, privacy and whatnot.   
      
   A few years ago I got a reprint of a history of rationing that was   
   reprinted by the IWM.  Very interesting description of what was a   
   complicated system.   
      
   It made me wonder whether the present day civil service would be capable   
   of organising such a complex system?  They would be sure to want to use   
   computers and it would end up a complete mess whilst the WWII system ran   
   with little pieces of paper.   
      
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