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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Time to object
Gabriel Syme (London)
(0)   Identity cards

Phil Booth of Infinite Ideas Machine and No2ID campaign draws our attention to the imminent deadline for the Home Office consultation period on ID cards bill, 20th July 2004.

He urges us, correctly, to send individual objections to the Draft ID cards Bill and I would like to pass that on to White Rose readers. There are still a few hours left!

Just in case you need any inspiration he has published the full text of his e-mail submission to the Home Office consultation on ID cards.

He also points his readers to Spy Blog's excellent annotated blog of the Draft Bill, Mark Simpkins' equally excellent blog of the entire consultation document. For those with some time on their hands he recommends reading Stand.org.uk's submission [219KB MS Word document].

Please do send something (even if it's just a simple 'I am against the proposed scheme and legislation' type mail) to identitycards@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk, making sure the words 'consultation response' appear in the Subject line.

Thanks.


Comments

Done ;-)

Posted by: Mark Ellott on July 21, 2004 01:50 PM

Thanks. :-) Will keep you posted. Also, Phil Booth and his blog is a great source of information of what's going on. At times he is too busy to blog but he is pretty much co-ordinating the No2ID campaign and he needs all the support he can get.

Posted by: Gabriel Syme on July 21, 2004 03:08 PM
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