ID cards reshuffled
For those interested in such things, Andy Burnham, the government minister previously responsible for cataloguing the population, was promoted in the recent reshuffle to become one of Patricia Hewitt’s understrappers at the Department of Health.
His successor (if you can call her that) is Joan Ryan. Time to get to know her. Anybody following this craptacular in the making can find her most recent utterances on the subject at They Work For You. TWFY also has a natty email notification feature to let you know when she (or anyone else for that matter) speaks. For those who understand such dark technologies, there’s also an RSS feed of her pronouncements.
Already, she does “not anticipate that the number of people choosing to renew early in order to delay enrolment on the National Identity Register will be significant in the context of the overall number of applications”. Prove her wrong.
In other news, Frank Abagnale has said he thinks ID cards will be cracked and forged within six months.
Posted on May 11th, 2006 at 10:03am under Affronts to democracy, ID cards
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If one accidentally left the card in a Microwabe for a few seconds on full power it would be possibly difficult to read it.
I would never suggest that anyone should even consider this as a good idea.
Interpol have records of 8Mn stolen travel documents from over 80 countries. The Belgian Afghan Embassy was “broken into” last week and over 200 blank pasports and several rubber stamps appear to have gone with them…
What good would microwaving an ID card that you had already queued up and paid for do you?
Resistance to this has to be much more active. Once you’re on the register you are theirs…
Livejournal users may like to know that the RSS feed is syndicated here. I’m compiling an aggregation of MPs I’m interested in here. Not a bad little tool overall.
Thanks for heads up Justin, had forgotten to look at the junior reshuffle.
I couldn’t help noticing this on the online passport renewal site (https://www.passport-application.gov.uk/(reps14vfpkji2rnxoqpcsnfw)/index.aspx):
“On Monday 15th May 2006 at 10am the online passport application and Lost/Stolen form will be shut down for maintenance and upgrade.”
and I’m guessing that if you try to do it the long way, asking them to post you a form to fill out and then posting it back, it’s already too late to get it done in May.
So… better renew it right now then.