Following on from the news that Whitehall staffers are concerned about the scheme, the wider media is beginning to pick things up, including the BBC. I had seen this excellent piece in the Guardian only moments before my friend Ben sent it over to me suggesting I link to it.
It does an excellent job of summarising the issues, the atrocious and shifting justifications given by the Government, and highlighting the fundamental issue for me and many others, that the identity register proposed fundamentally and irrevocably alters the balance and relationship between us - the people - and the government. They are supposed to serve us. With an identity register, we become the subjects of government, as well as of that prehistoric and pointless royal family.
If you remain apathetic on this issue, I’d suggest you give it a read and tell me you’re still not concerned. Then check what the anticipated costs are, and compare that to the money it’s supposed to “save”.
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