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Britons slashdot Parliament, hamstring national ID card

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James WallisPerson was signed in when posted
01-20-2003
05:58 PM ET (US)
 I got a very boilerplate response myself -- I suspect the boilerplate came from Central Office; it's way too bullet-pointy for an individual response (check it Charlie: three bullet-pointed lists, of four, four and three points? If so, almost certainly the same letter. It'd be interesting to know if moaners in Edinburgh are getting the same letter as moaners in London.)
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Charlie StrossPerson was signed in when posted
01-17-2003
05:35 PM ET (US)
 There are 650 MPs in Westminster.

My own MP got enough comments about the ID card proposal that he had a boilerplate letter to send out to constituents. (I know this from comparing the letter I got back from him with a friend.)

So yes, we certainly made a noise ...

... The problem is that a national ID card isn't an idea that's part of a party-political program; it's something that the Home Office bureaucracy seems to hatch at five to ten year intervals, and has done so ever since the last mandatory ID card (introduced during WW2) was abolished in 1951 or thereabouts.
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EekPerson was signed in when posted
01-17-2003
01:02 PM ET (US)
 Nice to have a bit of good news for a change.

Kudos to bOING bOING for helping to spread the word.
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