NO2ID notes that early adopters of the ID cards scheme are not to be reimbursed for their foolish purchase.
Approximately 13,000 people have already bought ID cards, which were introduced on a voluntary basis last year.
The cards – which can currently be used to travel in Europe without a passport – will be invalidated and individuals who paid £30 for them will be forced to purchase a passport instead.
Chris Grayling, the former shadow home secretary, had signalled that there would be refunds for cancelled cards. But he was denied the post of Home Secretary, which went instead to Theresa May.
The Government will now say that it cannot afford the estimated £500,000 cost of making and administering the refunds at a time when it is announcing £6 billion of cuts.
Given that each of these early adopters actively colluded in the previous administration’s scheme to tag the rest of us against our will, I have no sympathy. They should have used some common sense (and decency) and followed the same path of resistance as the rest of us. They chose to go into this scheme knowing full well that both opposition parties were promising to scrap it. They chose to tread the same path as Boxer. They are part of the problem; the “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” useful idiots of the Labour party. Call the wasted thirty quid a tax on stupidity and gullibility if it makes you feel better.
As the title says, really.
F*ck ’em. I bet half of them were Labour members anyway.
Should have known better. I once took out a subscription to Living Marxism because the girl at the Freshers’ Fair was smoking hot. I never got my money back. (Or the girl.)
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Good. Serves the buggers right
A fool and his money, etc, etc…
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Can’t see why they should be withdrawn as a travel document.
Presumably they still identify the individual and have the information other EU states need to identify the holder?
Still, seeing the sanctimonious being left slightly out of pocket makes me chuckle too.
If the scheme is rescinded, I suspect that the cards themselves are automatically nullified – and there are so few that the Europe-wide recognition is a bit pointless. My take, anyway.
Good. 6 years ago the previous government, when the depraved Blunkett was still at the Home Office, banned the Brocock air pistol. For years these had been sold through toy shops and sporting goods shops as legal low powered air pistols. Then Blunkett via the urgings of ACPO made them illegal. No compensation was offered to owners, some of whom had many such ‘guns’ and had spent thousands on them. Hand them in or get 5 years in jail was what the Home Office said. So no, the fucking slimey cnuts that bought into Labour’s ID Card scheme should not get a penny in compo. Fuck them, fuck them in the ear.
These people should hold on to them. Twenty years from now they’ll be a rarity, and I’d imagine they’ll be able to recoup most of their outlay on eBay or its 2030 equivalent.
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