Comments on: ‘ID cards won’t work’ – MP claims

By: A Private Person

A Private Person — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:02:40 +0000

Yes, martinb, I had worked that out! I just would prefer MPs that actually thought for themselves.

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I know, too much to ask!

P.S. It also encourages the governments count xx protests as 1 tendency that we saw with the id-card consultation. Central office should have taken a leaf out of the online protest letter/email encouragement sites practices and suggested that the MPs reword the text!

P.P.S. The papers should also have wrote “wrote” and not “said”, Oh the standard of reporting these days!

By: martinb

martinb — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:54:23 +0000

Of course the wording is similar – it’s a Central Office approved and supplied, ’stickyourconstituencynamehere’ talking point that’s on-policy. Which is excellent, as it shows that this is more than a few individuals saying this, it’s the party as a whole that’s putting its weight against ID Cards.

By: David Moss

David Moss — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:27:23 +0000

Cambridgeshire seems to be a centre of cross-party excellence as far as anti-ID card protests go, boasting at least four MPs who have voiced their opposition — David Howarth, Andrew Lansley, Malcolm Moss and Jim Paice — see
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2005/10/19/18933ce4-2160-4e1b-9f4b-bb82e6b1ac40.lpf

By: A Private Person

A Private Person — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:12:04 +0000

I am not complaining, but they are strangely similar in their wording (even down to the not always used comma before an and)…

“They are not the answer to the threat of terrorism, to benefit fraud, illegal immigration, human trafficking or to identity theft. They are a waste of money, and a Conservative Government will abolish them.”