Re: Gordon Brown will scrap ID cards for all
- From: MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:49:00 +0000
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 09:31:04 -0000, "Paul Nutteing (valid email address
in post script )" <nutteing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am gobsmacked! This mindboggling U-turn was mentioned only as a
brief afterthought tagged on to the BBC News on Radio 4 at ten past
eight this morning. But I checked the source, the Sunday Mirror, and
there it is in black and white:
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/11/04/
brown-scraps-i-d-card-plans-98487-20058224/
(URL wraps)
"Gordon Brown is to abandon controversial plans to introduce
compulsory ID cards for all.
"Instead, the Prime Minister will focus on tightening up existing
anti-terror laws and on new measures to be unveiled in Tuesday's
Queen's Speech.
"The cards are already compulsory for asylum-seekers and their
introduction next year for foreign nationals will go ahead as planned.
"But the proposed roll-out to force all Britons to carry them will be
shelved indefinitely, according to Whitehall sources."
I cannot believe this will happen. To say I am gobsmacked is really
the understatement of the year.
MM
As he is Scottish and ex-treasury perhaps he
only comes to this from the financing aspect -
ruinous costs.
I still wonder if it's true, since only the Sunday Mirror has carried
the story. It didn't feature at all on the BBC's one-hour Broadcasting
House programme this morning and I have yet to find any other report,
e.g. Google News, backing it up.
I'd have thought such a massive U-turn would be front-page news.
MM
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