And another

http://www.no2id.org.uk
You can tell these are riling me - nothing for over a month and then two posts at once.
This particularly.
I took part in the original YouGov survey on ID cards way back when. At this point it was proposed at £50 - not the exorbinate £300 now being mooted. The stat that 57%, or there abouts of respondants supported the scheme is actually made up of about 32% strongly supporting and 25% somewhat supporting. Just remember the price difference also in this. And this before the findings that, on average, the biometrics only work on about two thirds of the populace

I still fail to see how an ID card is going to help the 'war on terror'. Now, I get having a (inter)nationally recognised ID but surely, isn't that what the passport is for? Or the driving license? I get an ID for those who choose to live in the UK and don't drive or fly but at £300 !?! WTF? What good is yet another card going to do?
Now if the plans were to incorporate all existing licenses into one ID, it would make SOME sense.

But in the current state, it just smells of a back-hand deal; of some American company who have had one too many US focus groups flat-right saying NO to national ID so they have decided to bully the other side of the Pond instead to try to answer to their shareholders.

More very likely to follow (assuming RL doesn' bite me in the ass again)