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muninnhuginn ([personal profile] muninnhuginn) wrote2005-01-01 09:49 am

Thirty years on, thirty years more stupid

From BBC Online: Labour dismissed ID cards in 1974. "Nor do I see advantage in a system of identity cards, which apart from creating difficulties for ordinary people would be extremely expensive and largely ineffective," he [Roy Jenkins] wrote.


Hmm.


Still, at least, we ought to have the right to find things out sooner now that the Right to information becomes law.


Oh, Happy New Wotsit, too.