Do you want compulsory ID cards in the United Kingdom?
Do you want compulsory ID cards in the United Kingdom? I would hazard a guess that you don't. If that's the case then get over to stand.org.uk now and do something about it:
Hands up everybody who's really excited about the introduction of universal Identity Cards for every man, woman and child in the country! No? Well, that can't be right. Lord Falconer says that in one of the widest ranging consultations conducted by a government, they've been fair swamped with positive endorsements of the Government's Entitlement Card plans.
With just a few days to go before the end of the consultation, the Home Office is saying that overall the public's reaction is hugely positive.
The cynics amongst you might comment that that's because the only people who have been really gee-ed up about downloading a 13MB PDF (here's the HTML version we knocked up), scrutinising its every word and then writing up their fascinating points of view are those with an axe to grind about ID cards in the first place. Like the IT companies who are desperate to sell the government a brand new solution. Or the civil servants who've been hankering after this massive simplification of their dozens of databases for decades. Or the private companies like credit agencies who would dearly love to have a single ID to store all the data they're collecting on you.
