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Clegg aims to scupper ID cards plan

Nick Clegg has promised Liberal Democrats a "momentous" first year under his leadership - and said 2008 is the year to "bring down" plans for identity cards.

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ERM ...

31.12.07, 2:27pm

Remind me Mr Clegg ... what purpose do the Libdems exist to serve?

• Posted by: Camerton • Report Comment

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CLEGG AIMS TO SCUPPER ID CARDS PLAN

31.12.07, 2:23pm


You and whose army Mr Clegg? Cleggy is trying to puff-up his self-importance but in reality, he is in charge of a minuscule party that has been haemorrhaging supporters in droves.

There is no point in listening to Cleggy. The Libs have perilously unwise policies (he truly wants an amnesty for illegal immigrants!)

Voting Lib is in nobody's interest. The Libs will never form a government. Voting Lib will only allow Mr Bean with his corrupt and inefficient Marxist henchmen to cling on to power. It is in everyone’s interest to vote strategically to get Mr Bean out of power and out of our lives.

Luckily, people now realise that voting for the Libs is not only a waste of time, but is a very dangerous thing to do.

• Posted by: Peter_Pan • Report Comment

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DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THE LIB-DEMS

31.12.07, 1:20pm

The Lib-Dems are a joke .. they can say what they want but they will never get to achieve power in this country. All governmemnts must surely know that ID cards will never work, and that NO government would be stupid enough to implement these. The Lib-Dems are a bunch of hypocrites who, in one breath, want no restriction on immigration, yet bleat on about the environment and green issues .. when we know that this country is beyond coping with the people we have on these islands already (massive pressure on hospitals, housing, water supply, roads, social services and benefits, education..et etc) anybody with half a brain knows that, when passports can be faked with ease, and there is already almost no passport checking of people coming in through ports and airports (I know, I see it all the time), the inordinately expensive white elephant that is the introduction of ID cards, could never work.

The Labour Party has said we'd all have to pay for them, and they wouldn't be compulsory anyway. So.. all you get is a bunch of law-abiding British citizens carrying ID cards whilst the criminals and immigrants.. illegal and legal... temporary residents, asylum seekers, visitors from within and without the newly expanded EU (criminal and non-Criminal) etc. would NOT have to carry them.

A good starting point would to be for immigration officers to be told to SWIPE that information strip that we all have on our passports (like the USA does), to SCAN the photos on the passport (like the USA does), at every point of entry, to monitor exactly who is coming in, and who is going out of this country.

But that would be far too easy wouldn't it?

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