Our cuddly government today launched its latest consultation on ID cards. It runs for three months, closing on Friday 13th February 2009 (lucky I'm not superstitious).
This consultation is on the draft secondary legislation. According to the BBC story, it considers things like what fines will be levelled for people who don't ensure their information is updated, and what happens for transexuals (the proposal is that they get two cards).
I'm not going to comment on media reports (especially as today they'll be from journalists who haven't done more than skim the document).
What I will do is read the 97 page consultation document and make my comments here and to the government. I have every confidence that the Home Office will take my comments seriously and won't find a way to put an absurdly positive spin on the responses and use them to claim that the entire country is just desperate to be carded and get onto a lovely big government database.
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