Courtesy of the NO2ID blog, this story in the Daily Mail:
A police force will be set up to issue £1,000 fines to anyone who fails to update their personal details on the Government’s new database, it has emerged.
While the use of the term “secret police” may be somewhat hyperbolic, the principle remains; the government wishes to keep tabs on us; every intimate detail; and if we fail to keep them informed they will punish us. Not that this should come as any surprise; the foul demagogue, Blunkett was proposing this when he came up with his “entitlement” card plans some five years or so ago. Now, there is another example of the left twisting language… “Entitlement”, Hah! A nice cosy sounding word that equates to the home office spying on us under threat of penalties if we don’t. Still, at least they dropped any pretension of this scheme being about entitlements.
Potential pitfalls include forgetting to tell the Government of a change of address or name, failing to notify officials of an error on the National Identity Register and failing to hand in an ID card belonging to a relative who has died. All cash raised will go to the Treasury.
So if you are prone to forgetfulness, it could prove to be expensive. Basher wades in:
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “This sinister force will be collecting money from UK citizens to go straight into the Treasury. There is a real danger this will be another stealth tax.”
That’ll be stealth tax 100 then…
The Home Office insisted the £1,000 fine for not returning a dead relative’s ID card was designed to prevent misuse.
As opposed to fucking over a grieving family, that is.
Officials promise to handle the return of such cards ‘sensitively’.
Curiously, the words “sensitivity” and “home office” don’t gel together readily, I wonder why?
If anyone is in any doubt about the evil intentions of this administration, then the drip, drip of announcements that were warned of five years back; of nightmares coming to fruition; should jolt even the most complacent of people into the realisation that Britain is becoming a repeat of the surveillance society that existed in East Germany during the cold war years. Some, though, welcome it…