Mr Happy wants all you Brits
to take action against the proposed national ID card scheme:
The Government’s public consultation on a national ID card scheme ends this month. Until recently,
this has been about as well-publicised as the plans to build a bypass through Arthur Dent’s house,
which were put on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a
sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”. So far, this has had the desired effect: a tiny number
of responses with a majority in favour of the Government’s proposals. It’s not too late to change
all that.There’s a handy little interface at Stand.org.uk, allowing you
to write your own message which will be sent to the Home Office and will form part of the public
consultation. They also have a brief run-down on why the scheme is stupid, wasteful, stupid, oppressive,
stupid, ineffectual, and stupid.Go to the Stand website now, and register your opposition.
Don’t assume that other people will take care of things on your behalf. The only thing that will
stop this authoritarian and technologically illiterate scheme is if we all let the Government know
— right now, while they can still back down easily — that they will face a grim reckoning at
the polls if they carry on like this. And the only way to do that is for each one of us to add one
more voice to the opposition.