Results Of The Selected Poll

Question:

Many people are becoming increasingly worried about the proposed ID card scheme. Which term do you feel best sums up the ID card scheme?

Our Opinion:

Introducing Labour's mandatory ID card scheme is likely to cost every taxpayer at least £200. And then we will each be charged over £90 to obtain one of the new combined ID cards and passports. All that is based on current estimates of the cost - but we all know what happens to the costs of big Government schemes! Human rights campaigners Liberty say: "Despite not appearing to be compulsory, the Secretary of State can require some types of people to register, by 'proscribing' a group. This is likely to apply to foreign nationals at first but will eventually apply to the entire population." Spain's ID cards did not prevent the Madrid atrocities. Stella Rimington, the ex-head of MI5, says "I don't think that anybody in the intelligence services ... would be pressing for ID cards". Also, relying on one form of ID may well make problems worse - both America and Australia have far worse problems of identity theft than the UK because both of them rely on a single, widely used, identity number. If you are against ID cards, sign our petition at www.libdems.org.uk/no2idcards/

Your Opinion: