Over at the NO2ID site is a leader about councils that are resisting the ID card scheme. interestingly they are claiming that
ID cards would not be required for access to council services, and that the cities would refuse to cooperate with the scheme as far as possible within the law.
It goes on….
"Finger printing ordinary people and making them feel like criminals, then charging them for the pleasure, has no place in a supposedly free and liberal society. New Labour is becoming alarmingly authoritarian, to the point where even their own Council Groups cannot support them.
"ID cards are an expensive white elephant designed to pander to the Daily Mail. Once people realise what the scheme actually entails and the charge they will have to pay personally, opposition will grow."
And who said this? Why, Cllr Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne of Norwich City Council. No less than the constituency of Charles Clarke our esteemed Home Secretary who is championing the vile scheme. Oh, irony, irony. 
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