Bastards

[webofevil]

The Tories have done a deal and ID cards will be voted through. God knows what the sweetener was. Maybe ID cards won't be issued to anyone who owns property worth more than £10 million. Maybe anyone who owns a car worth more than £100,000 won't have to obey any UK speed limits. Maybe, in the final analysis, they're just

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[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

Isn't this actually a bit of a victory for the Lib Dems? Their compromise was designed to make ID cards voluntary until after the next election - so that they would be a central issue in the election campaign of 2009 or 2010. As the compromise is mooted to be that the cards will indeed be voluntary until 2010, they've got their way. Haven't they?

Oh and BTW. The Tories? Unprincipled? Craven? C#nts? Surely not.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> the cards will indeed be voluntary until 2010

Yeah, voluntary like a passport.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

I thought this distinction was at the centre of the compromise, or at least the one I've read about.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

The BBC have details here. Apparently, your details will go on the database when you register for a passport, but the cards are voluntary until 2010.

Interestingly, unlike most of the people I know who are fervently anti, the Tories seem more bothered about the actual card than the database.