ID Cards – no measurable security benefit
Trades Union staff tell Jacqui Smith that ID cards infringe civil liberties
It’s about time that this hapless government woke up to the fact that their “Big Brother” style just won’t work and is alien to the instincts of the British people. ID cards did not nothing to stop the Madrid bombers carrying out their evil deed in Spain and will do nothing to prevent such an atrocity happeniing here either.
Union staff representing airport workers will this week meet the Home Secretary as a matter of “urgency” to discuss their concerns.
In a letter to Miss Smith, Frances O’Grady, the deputy general secretary of the TUC, said the issue was also one of civil liberties.
She said: “Unions representing the airport workforce recognise the need for effective security measures, but see no evidence at all that these proposals that these proposals would enhance airport security arrangements.
“They have raised a number of specific issues: the move has significant civil liberties’ implications; that it would not be cost effective, and indeed, appears to impose additional burdens on business and employees with no measurable security benefit.”
Rather than take away our civil liberties and waste around £18bn of public cash, the Conservative Party would rather use this money to build new prisons to house those who have actually been found guilty of committing crime. It’s a better response than regarding us all as suspects.
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