LSE Concludes That ID Cards Are Too Risky

Plans for ID cards are too risky and lack the trust of the public, a London School of Economics report claims.

Another report that seems to come to much the same conclusion as the rest of us who have bothered to study the proposals. Government claims broad support among the populace. Certainly my experience suggests that they have a point. This is because people do not generally know what is being proposed; a nationwide intrusive database that would track our movements and anything else that at some future point the government decides to include. A card that is, effectively, a £100 tax on one’s identity. A change in the relationship between the government and the governed. Indeed, it is a solution looking for a problem, a control freak’s charter, bloody expensive with no benefit to those paying for it. The only people who understand it and still think it’s a good idea are the government in power and the Civil Service.

Now call me cynical, but it seems to me that there’s a vested interest here…