The end of compulsory ID Cards: victory or failure?

"Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards, let that money provide thousands more police officers on the beat in our local community." But Tony and New Labour, drunk on the power of electoral conquest soon thought that the complete opposite would outflank the Conservatives and Lib Dems on the right. But sterling campaign work from the likes of No2ID, the Lib Dems and (somewhat hypocritically since they first proposed them), the Conservatives, gradually ground down publix support for the scheme. So when Alan Johnson announced that the government was dropping plans to make ID Cards compulsory, huge numbers of people let out a sigh of relief. Chris Huhne called it 'another nail in the coffin' for the scheme. Many claimed victory. But the media and many campaigners have missed the point. This policy... [read full story]                    

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