Daily Archives: June 2, 2010


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Angela Epstein writes in the Manchester Evening News: They came, they identified, then they bit the dust. So ends the much maligned saga of the ID cards, which have been swiftly junked by the new Con/Lib Government. And as the first member of the public to acquire one of these now collector’s items, I’m deeply disappointed. Disappointed that the scheme, trialled right here in Manchester, has been strangled at birth before it had the chance to prove that ID cards could be incredibly useful as a safe and portable way of proving identity. Instead, our new Government delivered a knee-jerk response and scrapped the scheme, preferring to appease the so-called civil libertarians who hysterically clamoured that the introduction of ID cards was a blow for privacy and further damning proof of an ever encroaching nanny state. If this wasn’t a blatantly cynical exercise in tactical popularism then I don’t know […]

Opinion: Angela Epstein