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[chef]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8175139.stm

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"Home Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled the final design of the controversial national identity card.

The card will be offered to members of the public in the Greater Manchester area from the end of this year.

Ministers plan to launch the £30 biometric ID card nationwide in 2011 or 2012 - but it will not be compulsory."

compulsory.. yet.

[expat]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8175139.stm

soon for sale in Moss Side..

"Home Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled the final design of the controversial national identity card.

The card will be offered to members of the public in the Greater Manchester area from the end of this year.

Ministers plan to launch the £30 biometric ID card nationwide in 2011 or 2012 - but it will not be compulsory."

compulsory.. yet.

They are nationalising your identity and then offering to license it back to you. No, it won't be compulsory at first as long as you don't mind doing without it.

[Sysman]

Ministers plan to launch the £30 biometric ID card nationwide in 2011 or 2012 - but it will not be compulsory."

compulsory.. yet.

I assume the "long term unemployed" won't actually have to pay for the cards.

[TinTrump]

Let this delusional and authoritarian government that finds ever more insane ways to spend our money and infringe our liberties bend over for a thoroughly deserved

[PinkPoshRat]

Long term unemployed? - Phah, that's me then....

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Hmm, I wonder how many times they are going to "launch" ID cards?

They have had to stop quoting opinion polls though since the recent YouGov / Sunday People poll of 1765 adults in the UK has found that
79% of respondents think ID cards are a waste of money.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

There did used to be a pro-id cards poster on here but we haven't heard much from him lately.

NB This is not a critcism, I welcome being challenged (logically) on my opposition to ID cards anytime.

[minestrone]

It is truly uncanny, the 1984 book I had at school had an image of a face on the front that looks exactly like Johnson on his card

[minestrone]

There did used to be a pro-id cards poster on here but we haven't heard much from him lately.

NB This is not a critcism, I welcome being challenged (logically) on my opposition to ID cards anytime.

I am generally pro cards, they just could have been done properly.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I am generally pro cards, they just could have been done properly.

How?