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UK ID card cost goes up again
THE UK Home Secretary has revealed that Labour's glorious ID card, which will sort out the housing crisis, stabilise the banks, provide tax cuts and generally lead to peace in our time, will cost each and every punter £60.
Apparently the reason for the price hike is that the government is now insisting that even more biometric data will be installed on the plastic. Probably to appease the Americans who have been insisting that all foreigners have their bottoms tested and PCs nicked by immigration officials before they enter the Land of the Free.
The government has been trying to push the cards on an increasingly unwilling public for years. This is despite the problem that they are costly and ultimately pointless and an invasion of privacy.
The idea is to replace bank statements, utility bills, driving licences and birth certificates for anyone looking to confirm their identity.
She said that from 2012 around seven million UK residents will apply for an ID card or a passport. This will apparently create "a market" worth £200 million a year.
The additional cost of a biometric passport or identity card will be £28 each, on top of the current £72 charge for a new passport. The cost of paying for an identity card will jump from £30 to £58.
This means that the price of a passport will have increased fourfold in the past 10 years, from £18 in 1997 to £72. If it had followed the annual rate of inflation it would be just £23.67.
Of course the Tories have banged on about how terrible it is that Labour have pushed through the plan and how costly it is. Conviently forgetting that they were ousted from power before they could put their ID card plans through.
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve [Who he? Ed] added that the announcement of the price hike was particularly outrageous given the current economic crisis.
The increased charge is one thing, but that is nothing like the real cost for the electronic turkey. The government will also be paying shedloads of taxpayer money for the scheme.
Apparently the first ID cards are going to hit the shops next year for anyone that actually wants one. And the government is so convinced that people will be queuing up for one they will hold a lottery with the "prize" being an ID card.
Early adopters will be able to travel around the EU without a passport, but they will have to carry their ID card of course. µ
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they must think we are stupid. does anyone (other than fascists) actually think this is a good idea?

if they are using immigration control as justification, then why punish the innocent?

at least this logic is consistent with all other liebour logic - moronic!

unless of course, your objective is to become the most disliked prime minister in british history?

he seems to have an aptitude for this...

emmigration anyone? this country has gone way down the tubes.
gordon brown is an evil man intent on stealing the freedom and independance from every man, woman and child of britain. he is striving for a society of wage slaves so that he and his 'elite' friends can enjoy a life of ease and abject luxury while the general population work themselves into an early grave whilst trying to avoid hazards of debt, crime, poor health and insignificance. 

the people of britain should not be sad with their mundane existances because they have celebrity magazines, reality tv shows and soap operas to make them lead a rich and fulfilled life. (!)
.. by the time this gets off the ground we'll have a new government which will scrap the entire system.

HUZZAH!
Great, so what the government is saying is, "Put all your eggs in one basket!"

This scheme seems mad for lots of reasons - firstly it puts a lot of information into the governaments hands again that may not necessarily need. It makes it easier for criminals too, as all the data is in one place. Also if you lose it - you're stuffed !

Also, how long do you think it's going to be before they start requiring ID cards to purchase things like food, petrol etc ?

The end is most definately nigh ...
The only way to tackle an increasing opposition is to raise more money for bribes. And don't forget the £139.50 you pay for the Brown Broadcasting Corporation propaganda - sorry - "TV license".
BTW, the UK is not the only annexed country. Take a look at Germany (there you also pay the propaganda stations for an "Internet license"), Italy, etc.. Same scheme.
If they wants me giblets,
They can pay me...

Hell hath risen, 
herself, donning omission ('), 
thus "he'll" hath to do 
that I don^t.
"She said that from 2012 around seven million UK residents will apply for an ID card or a passport. This will apparently create "a market" worth £200 million a year".

You are right to place the word "market" in quotes. Maybe £200 million a year will change hands - going mostly from taxpayers' pockets into those of big defence and IT vendors - but what useful end-product or service will be created? None at all!

Digging holes in the ground and then filling them in again would be positively productive compared to this vast exercise in restriction, spying, and fear.