| BLACKNESS READER says in his or her letter there is overwhelming support for ID cards as proposed by the Government.
This is simply not true. The opinion polls cited by supporters of these are not straight forward.
Support for ID cards never rises above 20% when people are asked if they would be prepared to pay for them.
Blackness Reader claims ID cards will help eliminate benefit fraud and that so far £1billion has been clawed back under Labour from fraudsters.
The man behind the cards, disgraced former Home Secretary David Blunkett, said, “Fraud is only a tiny part of the problem in the benefit system.”
Finally, Blackness Reader states he or she can’t believe the SNP can’t see the benefits of an ID scheme.
It is simple to understand the SNP’s position. There aren’t any benefits to the Scottish people.
What Labour is proposing is a system that will have on it all the information about every citizen.
It won’t protect us from terrorism, as the people of Spain found out last year, and it could be abused by a government in the future.
I believe privacy is a fundamental right in a democracy. I would rather go to prison before I carry a Big Brother-style ID card. — Alan Hinnrichs, Dundee.
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