The very idea of ID cards is bad enough. But that we would actually have to pay to give the government all of our personal details out of our own pockets just adds insult to injury.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, promised that 80 per cent of Britons would have a biometric identity card within nine years.
The Home Office is planning to charge £30 for a stand-alone card, and about £93 for a combined passport and ID card. (The Times)
I don't want an ID card. My life is more than can be summed up in just a magnetic strip. And there is no fucking chance that I will pay them to have one.The Home Office is planning to charge £30 for a stand-alone card, and about £93 for a combined passport and ID card. (The Times)
So long as there is any compulsion in any way to have an ID card, it should be completely and entirely free, including no tax levy to pay for it "indirectly". If they want me to have an ID card, the very least they can do is pay for it out of their own wallets, because there is sure as hell no way that I am.
ID cards are pointless and intrusive. At the very least, I will not be forced in to paying for one.
