09 January 2006

No identity card? You could be fined �2,500

It looks like my MP's assertion that ID cards would be voluntary will be immediately undermined:
an obscure Whitehall consultation paper, calls into serious doubt the Government's repeated promises that planned ID cards, already hugely controversial, will be voluntary and that no one will be forced to carry one.

Creeping compulsorification by statute, more like.
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