So we are starting with compulsory issue - first to evil furriners (except EU furriners who, according to the Brussels collective, cannot be evil), then to airport workers, students (who, as we all know are smelly wasters, spending all their time drinking at the Union while skipping lectures) in 2010 and finally, once we have been immunised against it, all of us when we go and get our passports from 2011. She did try to say that the latter two would be voluntary but, as it is the register not the card that is important, I don't believe here. And nobody, not even airport workers, will need to carry it.
Unless, and I was taking notes by this point, you want to:
- Travel
- Get a bank account
- Get a loan
- Prove who we are to the police (Wat is going to be in real trouble)
- or buy property
And it will protect us against fraud. Will it? Only if we have checks against the NIR, using the biometric data on our ID cards, at every opportunity to commit fraud1. Which is a problem, because every time our identity is checked against the NIR, the circumstances of that check will ne recorded on the NIR. This is going to make the NIR much larger and much, much busier, therefore, almost axiomatically, much more likely to contain incorrect information and much more likely to fall over.
And the vaunted biometrics, in a different database to the NIR2 you know, is now just a digitised photograph and your fingerprints. Ho, hum. That will prevent terrorism, I know, Jacqui said so.
Not so - let's take an example. The completely hypothetical Abdul al Innocent comes to the UK to go to University3. After 4 years of exposure to pictures of Jade Goody, walking around piles of chav vomit / vomiting chavs, and encouraged by sermons from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Abdul decides that Britain is doomed unless we are brought under Sharia law. He goes home to get a job (having entered as a student, he has difficulty converting his visa to a work one and he is law-abiding and not going to go on the run.)
1. And as the banks found out with Chip & Pin, all that will do is drive the commission of fraud abroad.
2. Yes, the biometrics shouldn't be on any database, they only need to be on the card. But that would be the sensible way of doing things.
3. Why, I am not entirely sure. Even if Abdul was from a country we or the Yanks had bombed back to the Stone Age, he is likely to get a much better education, even in the English language, anywhere but here.
4. Adbul is not too bright. Let's say he was a "David Beckham Studies" graduate.
5. I did imagine a lot in here about his arrest under Section 132 of SOCPA and subsequent brutalisation at the hands of a militant lesbian Met Police Officer "because he looked at me funny, m'lud." But it was irrelevant so I left it out.
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This scum will have been stipped of their powers by 2010, so unless the Tories are going to run with the idea, its nothing more than another of those Nu Labour - How can we waste the tax payers money routines.
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