Johnson Unveils ID Card Design

The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, today unveiled the final design for the national identity card. From what I have seen of it, this £30 card, looks pretty standard in design.

I for one will be one of those who, on a point of principle, will refuse to purchase one of these cards. The government’s claim that it will help tackle crime and terrorism is completely erroneous. I mean, the Spanish have ID cards and look what happened in Madrid a few years back!

This card is purely a symptom of this increasingly authoritarian state that we now find ourselves in. It will enable the government to more efficiently gather all the information about an individual, keeping it all in one place. I would not trust the government with any of my data, after the spate of “misplaced information” they have had in recent years.

This whole scheme is also a colossal waste of money, costing well in excess of £1bn. They should divert those funds into something more worth while, like funding the Police and NHS; not this big brother scheme.