ID Cards U Turn

Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary has backed down over the compulsory introduction of ID cards. Mr Johnson said: “Holding an identity card should be a personal choice for British citizens – just as it is now to obtain a passport.

“Accordingly I want the introduction of identity cards for all British citizens to be voluntary and I have therefore decided that identity cards issued to airside workers, planned initially at Manchester and London City airports later this year, should also be voluntary.”

Amusingly on BBC 4 it was reported that Alan Johnson wanted to scrap the ID card scheme. However the Prime Minister wouldn’t let him. About time we got rid of this shower of cheating, lying, oxygen stealing fucking twats from power.