Strange turnaround (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Strange turnaround

8:36am Tuesday 17th March 2009 in Readers' letters By Telegraph & Argus

SIR – I would like to respond to the letter from James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, entitled “ID card advantage” (T&A, February 27).

Mr Hall claims that plans to introduce ID cards are widely supported by unions. Is that why the Trade Union Congress passed a motion on September 10, 2008, against ID cards, where they pledged to resist the identity scheme “with all means at its disposal”?

He goes on to say that airport union officials are very supportive of the scheme, which is a little bit strange as the union that proposed the motion to the TUC was the airline pilots’ union, BALPA.

Surely you can do better than this Mr Hall, or maybe you can’t, as after all there are no good reasons for ID cards.

Jason Smith, Bradford NO2ID co-ordinator, Bradford Resource Centre, 17-21 Chapel Street, Bradford BD1