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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[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.