Flimsy ID-card argument
However, that argument does not carry much weight with our teenagers, who object to being fingerprinted and iris-scanned like criminals, and having their visits to clinics recorded on a database over which they have no control. Nor does it carry much weight with older people who remember the abolition of wartime ID cards and the sacrifices made by so many of their generation to protect the freedoms Mr Blair is eager to throw away.
GERAINT BEVAN, NO2ID Scotland, Grovepark Gardens, Glasgow
Tony Blair claims that the overwhelming majority of the population are in favour of ID cards. What surveys is he looking at? I hope it is not the 2004 MORI poll, as that is now very old, and was at a time when hardly anyone knew what the scheme would entail.
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Hide AdThe country seems to be split over the issue. An ICM poll carried out in July actually claimed that a small majority were against ID cards. Is this yet more spin from the Prime Minister?
RICHARD CLAY, Darnley Gardens, Glasgow