Identity Cards WILL be Compulsory for NEARLY ALL of Us!

The Identity Cards Act of 2006 allows the Home Office to “designate” any official document.  If you apply for ANY designated document you MUST also apply to be entered on the National Identity Register or show that you are already on it.  Unless there has been a change in Government plans this will include anyone who applies for a passport, and it will also include anyone who applies for a CRB check (this includes teachers, medical staff, security guards, carers, youth workers, school governors and anyone who performs voluntary or paid work with young people, the elderly, or any other vulnerable group.  Once you have been included on the National Identity Register you cannot leave it, and you will also be legally compelled to notify the authority of any changes in “registrable facts” about you in any of it’s 50 categories.  It also means that if you were to take a low paid job in a care home, or as a security guard, for example, you could well end up having to pay most of your first week’s pay to the Government  for your identity card or you would not be allowed to do the job! 

 Click below to see the policy of the Liberal Democrat Party towards Identity Cards

Food For Thought! 

How many invaluable volunteer workers will choose to give up their irreplaceable work in our communities rather than “volunteering” to give their personal information to the National Identity Register?  How does the Labour Government propose to fill the gaps that this will create, which will occur in some of the most deprived parts of the country? 

Did You Know This?

2007 was the worst year ever for personal privacy.  Over 37 million items of personal data went missing.  Most of the data was lost by government officials but councils, NHS trusts, banks, insurance companies and chain stores also mislaid or published personal information about staff or members of the public. The details lost included those of names, addresses, passports, bank and mortgage accounts, credit cards, hospital records, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, driving licences and telephone numbers.  How can the Labour Government expect us submit our precious personal information to the world’s largest database when we cannot trust them to keep it safely?