Graham Coles

UK

Software Engineer

Lets just sift the facts out of this article.

ID cards have not stopped terrorist acts.

US Government debated and rejected idea of ID cards soon after September 11.

Any present or future Government can require DNA on these ID cards.

Very expensive to set up and run.

Publicly hackable database with your most personal information. This could make identify theft a hundred times worse.

The bill had to be revised to make it compliant with the data protection act!

The home office minister attempting to defend this inexcusable bill has no idea how it will prevent criminals obtaining false IDs.

So lets check the figures:

Cost of an intrusive bill that won’t really prevent terrorist attacks or combat fraud - 3000 million pounds
Cost of running the scheme - 500 million pounds a year.
Cost of losing your freedom - Priceless.

Tell you want, spend half that amount improving education and health care, send me a few hundred million pounds for the idea and I've just saved the taxpayers billions and improved their quality of life. Much better idea that wasting it on stupid ideas that don't achieve anything. Unfortunately this goes against current Government policy.