Archive for April, 2008

Mayoral debate focuses on crime

Posted at Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by andrew

The BBC carries a report on Tuesday evening’s London Mayoral hustings, including the one run by NO2ID: Mr Paddick told the meeting that like his party leader, Nick Clegg, he would rather go to prison than carry an ID card – and he criticised the use of Oyster travel card records to track people’s movements, [...]

ID card rebels offer £1,000 for Brown’s fingerprints

Posted at Sunday, April 6th, 2008 by andrew

Jamie Doward writes in The Observer: Two of Britain’s leading civil liberties groups are to offer a £1,000 reward for the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary – a move that could leave both groups open to prosecution for incitement. The anti-ID cards group No2ID and the campaign organisation Privacy International will this [...]

ID group calls for end to card plan

Posted at Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 by andrew

Laura Morris, writing in the Cambridge Evening News, reports the comments of the ID cards minister and NO2ID campaigners during the former’s visit to Cambridge: Ms Hillier said: “The two things I would say to the N02ID campaigners are first, the act of Parliament has been passed and ID cards will be brought in. Secondly, [...]

Search provided by Google