I heard Radio Four are looking for nominations of laws that should be repealed, and no2id Glasgow’s timely e-mail coaxed me in to action.
So regular readers won’t, of course, be surprised to read that I’ve nominated the Identity Card Act 2006 as the single worst piece of legislation that’s appeared in years for the way it undermines our liberties, will cost billions that could be better spent elsewhere, and won’t in any way help solve the problems the Government is claiming.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/vote/2006vote/ is the URL. Feel free to suggest your own if you think there’s something better that should be taken off the statute book.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Good suggestion, Richard, I’ve voted!
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:58 am
[...] Listening yesterday to the (disappointing) panel wafting it’s way through the nominations, and brushing aside the opportunity to push the debate in interesting directions, I soon lost hope it’d be a relevant list that did little, at least for anybody who doesn’t read the Daily Mail. Certainly no Identity cards act, which is perhaps the most significant ever change in the government-citizen relationship. It’s exclusion demonstrates the ignorance, wilful or otherwise, of the panel and - I fear - the wider public - to the implications of the act. [...]