Vladimir wrote:
What is it with spelling, this isn't your first mention
Nor yours
The Redbull Railstorm, The Fresh'n'Lo Great Scottish Run, they can't even spell. Sponsored by companies, why is everything sponsored Evil or Very Mad
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Vladimir wrote:
What is it with spelling, this isn't your first mention
The Redbull Railstorm, The Fresh'n'Lo Great Scottish Run, they can't even spell. Sponsored by companies, why is everything sponsored Evil or Very Mad
Apollo wrote:Reference to Scotland reminds of a rather farcical inteview I saw just after the election.
The interviewer was trying to get a straight answer to a question posed by the Scot, namely as to whether or not ID legislation passed in the English Parliament would or would not be treated as Reserved Issue in Scotland, and if Scots would therfore need an ID card in England, but not Scotland (I'm assuming the MSP had said the Scottish Parliament wasn't going to tow the line, but don't know).
Apollo wrote:
Somebody remind me, what are we paying these characters to do???
Vladimir wrote:The cards have nothing to do with racism etc. , white people are more likely to be questioned by police in general anyway.
Compulsory identity cards were first issued in the United Kingdom during World War I, and abandoned in 1919.
Cards were re-introduced during World War II under the National Registration Act 1939, but were abandoned seven years after the end of that war in 1952, amid widespread public resentment. Opposition reached its peak with the 1951 court case of Willcock v Muckle, after Clarence Henry Willcock refused to produce his identity card. The judge in the case said that the cards were an "annoyance" and "tended to turn law-abiding subjects into law breakers".
Wartime cards were a temporary measure to combat a obvious threat and didn't collect information on people through a central database.
Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.
The Independent on Sunday can today reveal that ministers have opened talks with private firms to pass on personal details of UK citizens for an initial cost of £750 each.
Amid warnings today that the cost of a card for each adult in Britain is likely to double to £200, union leaders predicted that millions of public-sector workers could refuse to co-operate with the scheme, prompting claims that the ID scheme will become Labour's equivalent of the poll tax.
Whitehall insiders, who have already been passed a copy of the LSE report, say it also includes a warning by a former Nato security chief that the cards could be a "security disaster", are "too risky" to introduce, and could lead to a national meltdown in the event of a security breach of the central database.
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