Category Archives: ID Cards

Business support for ID cards collapses

October 12, 2005 – 12:24 pm

ElReg is saying what those active in the NO2ID campaign group knew for a while: business support for ID cards is collapsing. Blair’s pet scheme to fundamentally undermine civil liberties in the UK is going to morph into a new revenue generation scheme for government that imposes a stealth tax on business.

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ID cards: live in Hove, West Sussex? Want to sack Celia Barlow Labour MP?

September 15, 2005 – 3:59 pm

A pledge has been set up at pledgebank for 500 people to promise to vote tactically against Celia Barlow (the incumbent Labour MP) at the next election if she votes in favour of ID cards.

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ID cards: write to your MP

September 6, 2005 – 10:27 pm

Via the writetothem.com web site I wrote the following to my MP. Not polite or constructive & I make no apologies: ID cards are an affront and I am angry (I also don’t believe it will make any difference so I don’t care).

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pledgebank ID cards

July 24, 2005 – 1:38 pm

The NO2ID pledge of 10000 people has been met. There is a new one, albeit not an ‘official’ one, started and looking for 50,000 to contribute £20 to a defence fund for refuseniks. I’ve signed up and I’d encourage you to:
ID card refusenik pledge

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The London bombings

July 8, 2005 – 1:37 am

Call me a cynic but I suspect that deep in their black hearts Blair and Clarke are rejoicing over the London bombing.
It confirms their worst fears that English society is a dangerous place with terrorists and ne’er do wells skulking in the shadows. Such people, they say, pose a dire menace and we must remove […]

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