I’m Not Gonna Pay For An ID Card
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.
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.
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.
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When Britain did have ID cards, in the 1939-45 war, did they have to pay for them? I think not.
A passport is a choice. There are still many people who don’t have them, (and incidentally have great trouble when authorities of one sort or another demand to see one to check identity).
But if ID cards are to be compulsory there should be no question of a chance.
This is academic, because we don’t want and don’t need to have them at all.
Nick Clegg doesn’t want one either, but when faced with the prospect of a prison sentence I guess he’ll abstain!
Just read on another blog that the word Clegg is synonymous with twat!
I hate the idea of ID cards too.