ID legislation can still be beaten
Mark Ballard writing in The Register, reports comments from Andrew Phillips, The former Lord Phillips of Sudbury, and opponent of ID Cards:
Another piece of legislation that Phillips fought in the House of Lords and is still fighting today is the Identity Cards Bill. He had been talking with Liberty, the civil rights campaign group, and No2ID about how to continue working against the introduction of ID cards.
“On ID Cards, the battle is not lost, the battle is there to be won,” he said.
The rallying cry is the first indication of how Phillips might spend his time since he took the unprecedented step as a life peer by giving up his seat in the House of Lords last month.
He had handled over 13,000 pages of badly drafted legislation last year alone, he said. That was a net increase of about 8,000 pages of legislation in a single year. That volume of work was not conducive to good law making, he said.
