From the BBC:
"The identity card scheme will become a "great British institution" on a par with the railways in the 19th Century, Home Office minister Liam Byrne says."
No, really, see here for details.
So, Byrne is comparing the railways - vital trading routes during an industrial revolution that transformed not only the nation but also the world - with ID cards - a massive waste of time and money and also a gross infringement of civil liberties.
For some reason, I can't see the similarity...
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 2:03 pm
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1 Comments:
Surely you can't fail to see that the UK ID scheme will be the "envy of the world". Much like, oh, the NHS which everybody, apparently, admires (and envies) but, funnily, very few democracies - in reality no democracies - actually copy. I wonder why: is it because the NHS is and the ID scheme will be massively expensive, give politicians yet another excuse to run our lives and, in the end, unbelievably inefficient in what they are established to deliver?
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