To-date not a single one of the UK Government's IT projects has delivered the desired functionality to a high quality standard on time and to budget. Not one, nadda, nothing... In the UK this is becoming something of a joke with endless "we have learned from our mistakes and will try harder next time" speeches from this politician or that civil servant.

So why the following:

http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39163450,00.htm

??

To quote the usually very reliable Silicon.com:

"The government won't test all of the technology underpinning its ID cards plans before the project goes live, it has revealed..."

I'm suffering a real sense of Deja Vu here (was it the same black cat?)