Five letters in the Telegraph respond to Joan Ryan’s letter of the previous day. The last one is representative of the mood:
Sir – If identity cards are designed to safeguard, not erode, civil liberties, the legislation must inevitably include a clause to safeguard the citizen’s right not to have one.
If it does not, it is itself an immediate and substantial erosion of the civil liberties that Ms Ryan claims it protects.
Nick Parkes, Swansea
More responses in the paper today (24th)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/05/24/nosplit/dt2401.xml#head3
Can’t help but feel sorry for the poor girl. Every time she gets a letter printed, thousands write in and nitpick everything she said.
Oh the tragedy.
I have the world’s smallest violin around here somewhere…