Note on ID cards from NO2ID
The new Home Secretary found himself in Manchester for the second time
in a month this week, pausing only to wave the final mock-up of the
identity card at St Pancras Station. We wonder whether this counts as
two towards the Home Office’s quota of summer policy announcements to
make the government look active and decisive.
Once in Manchester, which is to be a “beacon area” (beachhead?) for the
scheme, he conducted what is certainly the third, and (if you count St
Pancras) possibly the fourth re-launch of ID cards this year. It is
beginning to look a bit desperate.
Mr Johnson called ID cards a “No-brainer” in the fight against fraud. “I
believe the ID card will be welcomed as an important addition to the
many plastic cards that most people already carry,” he said. You’d have
to *be* a no-brainer to believe that. Nobody with a brain is going to
take up Mr Johnson’s important addition when they realise it means being
tagged and tracked for the rest of their lives, and that that particular
plastic card will own *them*.
Strangely the Home Office is quiet about that element of the bargain. It
is up to NO2ID to tell the public, and we will be launching a series of
campaigns in Manchester and the north west during the autumn. Look out
for more information soon about how you can help.
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