ID Cards

south west | miscellaneous | news report Friday July 16, 2004 11:56 by concerned

id card consultation ends soon copy from uk indymedia

Please do not hide this posting, lots of in people Bristol are very concerned about the prospect of having to carry around id cards....

IMPORTANT NOTICE
ID Cards - Official Comments Deadline: Tuesday, 20th July
BE SURE TO SEND IN YOUR COMMENTS

BACKGROUND:
Many people probably haven't a clue about the Home Office's Consultation on ID Cards. The consultation period has a deadline of Tuesday, 20th July. Does the public know this? Have we seen adverts about the Legislation on Identity Cards consultation document (Ref CM 6178) that was published in April, 2004?
Have you seen the deadline published in any newspaper .... anywhere?
OK, so please read on.
The public has got to write off to The Stationery Office or call 0845 702 3474, fork out =A316.10 or alternatively you can access the document for FREE on line from the Home Office website.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs3/identitycardsconsult.pdf
Then the public has to make sense of it all before commenting on it. Perhaps there are hopes that not too many of us will bother to get this far!
The Home Office is rolling out the voluntary aspects of ID cards that will turn COMPULSORY (no dates of course) with unknown details that will only appear at the Regulation stage of the legislation. Does this sound a bit dodgy?
IT WILL BE A BIT LATE TO CAMPAIGN THEN
The ID Cards Bill will become the ID Cards Act. Ring the alarm bells now for people to wake up, sit up and get asking questions before we all have to line up. Read "Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID card" it's at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/complete_idcard_guide/ It's witty, straightforward and a lot shorter that the Home Office's 120 pages..
READ THE BBC REPORT OF RECENT PUBLIC MEETING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3731465.stm
READ THE NEW CAMPAIGN GROUP'S WEBSITE
http://www.no2id.net/index.html
READ DAVID BLUNKETT'S PRESS RELEASE (26th April)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/n_story.asp?item_id=3D918
Remember the ID Cards Comments Deadline: Tuesday, 20 July
HELP BLOCK BLUNKETT by giving sending your views to:
Robin Woodland,
Legislation Consultation,
Identity Cards Programme
Home Office,
3rd Floor
Allington Towers
19 Allington Street
London SW1E 5EB

Comments may also be sent by fax to 020 7035 5386 or by email to identitycards@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
If commenting by email, please include the words consultation response" in the subject title. Note that all comments received on the consultation paper may be published unless you ask specifically that your details are NOT published. You will need to put this request for confidentially in the main text of your email. And whilst you're writing, write to your local and regional press about ID cards - they may publish your letter.

Regards and get writing!

A concerned UK citizen