Greens oppose ID cards

Martin Whiteside, the Green Party's candidate for Stroud in the last General Election, said: "The Government £5bn ID card plans open up a Pandora's box of potential civil liberties abuses with a National Identity Register containing at least 50 pieces of information on each individual. This plan essentially will force taxpayers to fund the creation of a surveillance state."

Martin Whiteside said: "The Green party has joined a nationwide campaign calling on the Prime Minister to scrap ID card legislation. I would urge people from all parties and none to support this campaign. The cards won't do anything to prevent crime, benefit fraud or international terrorism and they will leave citizens open to unprecedented levels of abuse from private business and future Governments through the creation of a national database. We are still waiting for the Government to produce one valid reason for making this fundamental change in the relation between citizen and state or for squandering the taxpayer's money in this way."

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http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1434&Itemid=2

Sign online pledge

"I will actively support those people who, on behalf of all of us*, refuse to register for an ID card, and I pledge to pay at least £20 into a fighting fund for them but only if 50,000 other people will too."
Online No2ID cards pledge

Hugo Charlton, Chair of the Green Party and Home Affairs spokesperson, has expressed concern that the ambitious scheme will overun the Government's £5bn estimated cost: He commented: "Historically, the Government's disastrous database-related schemes have either broken down entirely, causing widespread chaos, or massively overrun the initial estimates - for example the £30 bn NHS computerisation which cost 5 times the estimate. The bill for this ambitious scheme will be astronomical."

More information

More information from the NO2ID card campaign.
Download the Information Commissioner's report on the ID Card Bill

See the movie!

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Greens Coffee House Discussion

Coffee House Gathering in Stroud in October 2005 looked at ID cards with speaker from NO2ID cards and more.

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