UK: papers please

[Will Morton]

2008/12/8 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3543266/Police-and-immigration-given-powers-to-demand-to-see-identification.html
>
> <snip>
>
> 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.

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