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The British government is just using ID fraud to scare people into supporting ID cards. Pressure to conform with the EU is the real reason why the UK government is introducing compulsory biometric ID cards. All those claims about preventing terrorism, illegal immigration and illegal immigrant labour scams were BS. In particular, compulsory National Identity Cards with biometric data and their associated National Identity Register database would make it possible for Blair to sign the UK up to Phase II of the Schengen Information System.

The Council of the European Union wishes to standardise ID cards across Europe and have mandatory fingerprinting for all EU citizens. The future French electronic ID card will include two biometrics and Sweden has just started issuing biometric ID cards. In order to make Britain part of the European super-state the Europhilic Labour government must bring us into line with European requirements. However, unlike most European countries, Britain has a proud record of respecting a law-abiding individual's liberty, (at least until recently). We should not throw our liberty away just to be assimilated into a future European super-state.