Comments on: Express http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/07/01/express-491/ Watching the Daily Mail Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:39:10 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/07/01/express-491/comment-page-1/#comment-218951 Mark Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:54:04 +0000 http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/?p=3744#comment-218951 Unfortunately ID cards haven't been scrapped. The National Identity Register database remains (which is what the objections are about), and it will still be compulsory for anyone wanting a passport, at least, to be entered onto the database, have their fingerprints taken etc, be subject to fines for not notifying the Government of change in address, as well as the excessive costs (estimated £93 for the combined ID card and passport, and an extra £30 to a private company for the privilege of having your fingerprints taken). The only change is that you don't have to have the physical piece of "card" itself - but you still have to pay for the bleeding thing. I agree that if Brown really did scrap ID cards, I'd be glad, and not belittling him for it in brackets. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/30/passport-details-id-card-database http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5700903/Country-cannot-afford-this-ID-shambles.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6619935.ece Unfortunately ID cards haven’t been scrapped. The National Identity Register database remains (which is what the objections are about), and it will still be compulsory for anyone wanting a passport, at least, to be entered onto the database, have their fingerprints taken etc, be subject to fines for not notifying the Government of change in address, as well as the excessive costs (estimated £93 for the combined ID card and passport, and an extra £30 to a private company for the privilege of having your fingerprints taken). The only change is that you don’t have to have the physical piece of “card” itself – but you still have to pay for the bleeding thing.

I agree that if Brown really did scrap ID cards, I’d be glad, and not belittling him for it in brackets.

See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/30/passport-details-id-card-database
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5700903/Country-cannot-afford-this-ID-shambles.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6619935.ece

]]> By: Will http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/07/01/express-491/comment-page-1/#comment-218918 Will Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:53:43 +0000 http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/?p=3744#comment-218918 I fear I might get murdered as well. I wouldn't like that at all. If I was really famous, I would probably fear it even more. So, thats the end of that pointless anecdote, so whats the point of the one on that page? I fear I might get murdered as well. I wouldn’t like that at all. If I was really famous, I would probably fear it even more. So, thats the end of that pointless anecdote, so whats the point of the one on that page?

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