ID cards - another defeat for lame duck PM
bloomberg:U.K. Lords Defeat Government Plan to Make ID Cards Compulsory
Britain's House of Lords rejected government plans to make a system of national identity cards compulsory, dealing a second blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair's flagship proposal for fighting fraud in just over a week.
The upper chamber of Parliament voted 186-142 for an amendment that would make registration voluntary. On Jan. 16, the Lords backed an amendment that would force the government to provide an audited estimate of the costs of introducing the cards.
"Unless there is compulsion, you won't get the benefits of an ID card system,'' Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer said in a British Broadcasting Corp. interview ahead of the vote. "I think it will become inevitable that you need reliable means of identification, both to stop people stealing your identity, and also making it much easier for you to deal with the state." Read more
Google: lame duck PM [without quotes] and you get:
Tony Blair - Biography Outside Number 10 on the day after his victory, the PM said that 'respect' would play a big part in his third term agenda .... [not from his MP's]
www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page4.asp
Britain's House of Lords rejected government plans to make a system of national identity cards compulsory, dealing a second blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair's flagship proposal for fighting fraud in just over a week.
The upper chamber of Parliament voted 186-142 for an amendment that would make registration voluntary. On Jan. 16, the Lords backed an amendment that would force the government to provide an audited estimate of the costs of introducing the cards.
"Unless there is compulsion, you won't get the benefits of an ID card system,'' Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer said in a British Broadcasting Corp. interview ahead of the vote. "I think it will become inevitable that you need reliable means of identification, both to stop people stealing your identity, and also making it much easier for you to deal with the state." Read more
Google: lame duck PM [without quotes] and you get:
Tony Blair - Biography Outside Number 10 on the day after his victory, the PM said that 'respect' would play a big part in his third term agenda .... [not from his MP's]
www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page4.asp
posted by exoplanet at 7:09 PM
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