The Telegraph is covering this story as is the UK ID Blog.
The government has published the response to its consultation document. Contrary to Big Blunkett’s earlier suggestions that the UK public overwhelmingly support his scheme, only 31% were in favour.
Good, you might think. They’ve held a consultation and asked us what we think and we’ve told them. Well, in a true consultation exercise, you’d be forgiven for thinking that. This, however, is a knee-jerk authoritarian we are talking about here. He dismisses the figures with the excuse that those of us who responded opposing the scheme were "self selecting." So, it wasn’t a consultation exercise after all.
Sometimes, you see an example of supreme arrogance that is so astonishingly bare-faced that it leaves you fuming and speechless, unable to find sufficient expletives to describe just how you feel. This is one of them.
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