City Lib Dems Look Forward to No2ID day

12.00.00am UTC (GMT +0000) Sun 4th Feb 2007

Oxford Lib Dems are backing the Oxford No2ID group, which campaigns against ID cards

City Lib Dems have backed the No2ID campaign's campaign to "celebrate" 23rd March 2007 as Britain's first No2ID day. "ID cards, like so much of the criminal justice system under Labour, are not fit for purpose. They must go," said Lib Dem leader of the council, John Goddard.

On the day that the Home Office's first interrogation centres will open their doors to young people - getting their first passports and thus first in line for the draconian ID processing - the No2ID campaign will be highlighting the folly of the government scheme.

Cllr. John Goddard has reiterated the authority's support for scrapping national ID cards, and has pledged that Oxford City Council will not cooperate with the scheme in any of its services. The council adopted such a policy from a Lib Dem motion passed last year.

Lib Dems would scrap the £3 billion project - the latest in a long line of madcap government IT projects. They would use the money to pay for 10,000 extra police on our streets, rather than expect plastic to do the policing for us.

Cllr. Richard Huzzey, who is treasurer of Oxford No2ID, added, "it's no coincidence that lots of people working in the IT industry in Oxfordshire are at the forefront of campaigns to abandon this illiberal scheme. They know from their own work that the government has over-hyped the security and utility of the big brother database it wants."

"On 23rd March," he continued, "city Lib Dems will be joining the Oxfordshire No2ID group in highlighting a watershed in Labour's erosion of core British traditions of liberty."

Related Links:

Lib Dems Against ID Cards - Petition Campaign.

Oxford No2ID Campaign.

National No2ID Campaign.