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Published Date: 24 January 2008
STUDENTS applying for loans will be forced to hold identity cards to access the funding, leaked Home Office documents have revealed.
The Whitehall strategy document showed young people would be targeted from 2010.

Airport workers will also be required to have the cards.

The government had planned to start issuing "significant volumes" of ID cards alongside passports from 2010. But the scheme is set to be delayed by two years.

The biometric cards are due to be introduced for foreign nationals later this year, with the first expected to be issued to UK citizens on a voluntary basis from 2009.



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1

An Beal Bacht,

24/01/2008 04:25:59
Aye - target our kids. There should be a really nasty, dirty, despicable word for this lot. Any suggestions?
2

it has always been allan,

bury st edmunds 24/01/2008 07:14:40
yes no 1, communists
3

donald,

glasgow 24/01/2008 08:04:42
"yes no 1, communists"

Why not? They all end up working for MI5 anyway, like Jim Murphy, student Brit Nat "Revolutionary Communist Party" Blair's Babe leader.
4

Charles Crosby,

UK 24/01/2008 08:24:12
ID Cards and their enforced use is just the softening up process for micro-chips and thereafter a totally controlled society - The New World Order - One World Government that Mr Brown mentioned several times at a recent meeting of the CBI.

What they are planning is far worse than the world of Orwell's 1984. IMO they are using his book as a manual or guide.

5

Guthrie,

Edinburgh 24/01/2008 09:19:00
2, 3- no, now your insulting communists. How about "power hungry monomaniacs who despise everyone who is not one of them"? That covers all political parties, by the way.
6

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 24/01/2008 09:43:35
Students have always been required to hold ID cards to access grants (remember them) and loans. It was called the Matriculation Card.
7

Guthrie,

Edinburgh 24/01/2008 10:42:47
But a matriculation card didn't have anything more than a photo on it, and was purely university based. No biometrics, and it wasn't plugged into the Gvt database. Therefore the comparison is invalid.
8

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 24/01/2008 10:58:44
#7:

What you said there is quite pertinant. You have just described all that is needed of such a card. why would you need biometrics and government databases to get a student loan?

This Id card scheme MUST be fought and th eonly way to do it is by means of mass non-compliance. For a start, I will not be having one under any circumstances whatsoever.
9

Guthrie,

Edinburgh 24/01/2008 11:26:07
Agreed. If we get enough people to refuse, it will monkey up the system. (All the data and IT related people I know think the ID cards scheme is insane)
10

Biker,

Ayr 24/01/2008 16:23:24
This is the most underhanded and backdoor method of introduction of this service. This needs to be faught at every turn. It is iniquitous and unnessecerry in the extreme.
#2 It aint communist mate. The tories were trying to introduce this system 20 years ago.
11

Cauchy Riemann,

Wales 24/01/2008 17:05:26
#10
If memory serves me right it was Michael Howard who floated the idea - though there was a radical difference, his idea was voluntary ID cards for British citizens. I believe the whole idea was dropped when the cost became apparent.

 

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