NO2ID - Identity Cards

11.51.29am GMT Tue 21st Dec 2004

Last night saw the House of Commons vote on the Second Reading of the Identity Cards Bill. the Government won the vote by 385 to 93 - a majority of 292 with 173 abstentions. The new Home Secretary Charles Clarke also admitted that the government would bring in compulsory identity cards once a voluntary system had been accepted by the British public.

I am against ID cards for many reasons, not just because they won't stop terrorists, eliminate benefit fraud, cost billions in taxpayers money but because they are fundamentally illiberal - I am proud it was a liberal but refusing to show his ID Card ensured they were abolished last time we had them and I have grave concerns about what information will be stored upon them and who could access that information.

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