Thursday, July 29, 2004
Hmm, I wasn't expecting this: MPs attack Blunkett ID card plan. David Blunkett's plan for compulsory identity cards will be condemned by MPs tomorrow as improperly costed, poorly thought out, secretive and "lacking in clarity both over the scheme's scope and practical operation". The MPs, on the home affairs select committee,... express alarm about what they describe as "function creep" once a national identity register is in place. They warn that ministers are already planning to use the ID card scheme as a cover to introduce a national fingerprint system within five years.
However, as the plans are underway and Parliament isn't sitting at the moment I don't think this is going to make Blunkett stop and consider his monomaniacal plans. The committee has no legal power to make Shiteyes reconsider and come up with a plan that would actually work.
However, as the plans are underway and Parliament isn't sitting at the moment I don't think this is going to make Blunkett stop and consider his monomaniacal plans. The committee has no legal power to make Shiteyes reconsider and come up with a plan that would actually work.
