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More than a card - a new way of life
The ID Card scheme is not just a harmless new bit of plastic in your wallet.
It requires a massive and intrusive database that changes the nature of UK
Citizenship and shifts the balance of power further away from the citizen to
the State. With the National Identity Register (NIR) and ID Card, the
Government will control your identity. It will decide who you are. Showing
ID to officials will become an everyday part of British life. Although other
Europeans are used to ID Cards the NIR is much more controlling than their
ID Card systems and they have legal safeguards we do not. It will open your
life to inspection by thousands of bureaucrats.
Spiraling costs
Even the Government admits the minimum cost is E5.8 billion - that's six
domes! That estimate has doubled since 2004. And it only counts Home Office
costs and not the penalties for errors, or the cost of policing many new
offences. The Government is reducing the Civil Service but is building a
whole new Identity Service. Taxpayers and businesses will have to pay yet
more for special scanners in doctors' surgeries, benefit offices, banks and
even hotels.
