I have just wrote to my MP Natascha Engel protesting the idea of National Identity Cards via Write to them. I have done this after signing and being encouraged by a pledgebank proposal to boycott ID cards. I’ve explained why I don’t like the bill and asked her views, lets just hope she replies.
I have read about the national identity cards on No2ID as well as in various other places and I cannot see how they are justified, both from a civil liberties point of view and an expense point of view.
The current Home Office forecast is £5.5billion, but independant experts (LSE report) forecast £18billion, the governments (well, their contractors) inability to forecast costs for computer projects is well known, look at the CSA fiasco for example.
I hope that people reading this will be influenced read more about this matter, to campaign against ID cards and most importantly to write to their MPs about the matter.
Dean Sas 