Bye Bye ID Cards?
So native Brits will now no longer be compelled into getting ID cards. This government is now so desperate it’s now freely mimicking last-phase Blair in only talking populism. If it’s likely to get short term electoral advantage then it’s going to hit the headlines. See what they did with transport policy the other day? Rather than biting the bullet and engaging in progressive policy making, they decided the base they’re now manic about retaining needed to be appeased. So instead of road pricing we got a trial run of using hard shoulders of motorways as new traffic lanes. Watch an increase in breakdown fatalities be completely ignored, as the ‘benefit’ of short term electoral gain outweighs the real benefit of a policy which changes the world for the better. Charles Clarke may be barking mad but he didn’t like it anyway.
So when it comes to the vexed issue of ID cards, it’s now a tool to use for the dreaded migrants, the dreaded students, people working in sensitive jobs (like at airports - don’t they have security anyway?), and the biometrics will be inserted into passports (which won’t have to be carried 24/7, and which I believe were to become biometric anyway). On the surface this seems like cause to celebrate. Based on Jacqui Smith’s account, the state will not make an attempt after all to determine the individual, rather than the individual determine it. Yet the National Identity Register is not to be affected by this change. Biometric passports could just be what they were destined to be, but the digital identity capture will be logged by government and added to the register, and no doubt kept as safe as the other confidential information which seems to leak from them these days like a sieve. So there won’t be any ID cards (apart from an ever increasing number of minorities), but the pernicious surveillance and control element remains intact.
David Davis just mooted on Question Time that they’ll still be rolled out by stealth anyway. Add enough minorities which the majority can agree on, bit by bit, and you have the majority then questioning what the politics was all about anyway, eventually legitimising them for us all. Don’t be fooled. It is for the individual to determine the state, not the other way around.
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