Union blow to ID card scheme (Britain)

[baby_bear]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/unions/story/0,12189,1515035,00.html

Key staff could scupper Blair plan
Home Office prepares for U-turn

Jamie Doward, Martin Bright and Ned Temko
Sunday June 26, 2005
The Observer

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Controversial government plans to introduce identity cards for every Briton were dealt a severe blow last night after the union representing the officials charged with implementing the scheme dramatically came out against it.

Unison, Britain's biggest union with 1.3 million members, used its annual conference to attack the proposals in a move likely to set alarm bells ringing in government.
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The government argues that ID cards will help to prevent terrorism, but Unison rejected the claim. 'It's an intrusion on civil liberties. It is not a way of stopping terrorism. The conference heard how the terrorists who orchestrated the Madrid bombings had ID cards,' the spokeswoman said. The union's rejection of the government's plans follows a similar move by the Transport and General Workers' Union, which has warned that the scheme risks 'becoming Labour's poll tax' and 'a disaster for race relations'. Other unions are believed to be severely critical.

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very interesting....

b_b

[drduffy]

1. well, how the hell

do we something like that here? ID cards are just the Bushies' way of increasing the control from the fascist state. To hell with the ID and to H with B