Database to be Erased

At last it's time to take a long, luxurious shit all over David Blunkett's political grave. The new government of the UK has announced the end of ID cards, the national identity register and biometric passports. New Labour's dream of turning the UK public into tagged cattle has failed.

'All the data currently held on the national identity register will also be destroyed within a month of royal assent.'

Read: ID cards scheme to be scrapped within 100 days, Guardian, 27 May 2010.

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The Right Honourable Jacqui Smith MP Drowns.
Alan Johnson: Back Door Man.
How to Forge Biometric Identification.
UK Government Secrets Found in Pub Car Park.
'The loss of rights and freedoms in the UK...the neglect by the Labour government of Parliament and due process'.
Biometric Fingerprinting is Killing Music.