2008/12/8 Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3543266/Police-and-immig...
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Shadow Immigration Minister, Damian Green, added "This scheme will do nothing to improve our security, may make it worse, and will certainly land the tax-payer with a multi-million pound bill.
"Labour should be concentrating their efforts on things that will actually improve our security, like a dedicated UK Border police force, instead of trying to introduce ID cards through the back door.
"Now more than ever the issue of our basic freedoms is very important."
Note the complete lack of a commitment by his party, the Conservatives - traditionally more right-wing than the governing Labour party - to do anything different. 'Whoever you vote for, the government wins', etc. W