I dunno, for some reason the tories seem to be a bit less Orwellian in their views. Never know though, if this is laboured out until the next election we could see the tories put the stoppers on it. Aren't they also anti-ID card too?
People will always get murdered, it's a simple fact, Minority Report isn't going to stop that.
The tories are meant to be for civil liberties - but in an attempt to become electable it's not a very popular platform. The likes of David Davis (who resigned his seat and shadow cabinet position over the 28 days detention thing) are somewhat admirable. There's a lot more of them in the tories than in Labour, but it's an outdated thing to champion. Especially in a time of GLOBAL RECESSION!!
The tories are anti-ID card and biometric passport, but it's the true desire of the government to accrue everything they can anyway. At the minute, the NHS database serves that purpose perfectly, and noone even knows it.
I will not have an ID card. In France if you don't have an ID card you have to pay to get into the Louvre, I'd much rather this than casually supply information about me to anyone. The talk of if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't fear it isn't sufficient. Though it's possible they'll need your ID card if you want to be employed in future, and if that happens I'm away to fuck.