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No2ID have a terrifying new campaign video:

www.no2id.net/TakeJane/ for more information.
(Hat-tip: Shane Greer).

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Alistair Darling’s first Budget and Balls’ outburst.

Jacqui Smith announces how ID Cards will roll out (watch Taking Liberties!) and Dizzy’s critique.

Clegg wants to cut the slash the number of MPs following his weekend conference speech.

Tories lose another MP.

Mixed polls for all the parties.

If [...]

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The new edition of Politalks, your weekly satirical news roundup, is here. This week we discuss Labour’s treatment of Nineteen Eighty Four and Margaret Thatcher’s non-death:

Feel free to share and share alike, and for those who are interested, here’s the transcript:
Nineteen Eighty Four tells the story of Winston Smith, a man trapped in a totalitarian [...]

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Oh god. Via the BBC:
"Non-EU migrants, baggage handlers and students will be the first to receive identity cards, the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will announce later.
Ms Smith will tell the Commons that foreign national workers from outside the European Union will be the first to be issued with cards this year. In 2009, cards will [...]

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The breathtaking racism / nationalism (your choice) of the Labour government continues, with the revelation that Johnny Foreigner may be the only one to be compulsorily issued with an ID card. This comes of course after their smash-hit racism last year: “British Jobs for British Workers“.
Am I the only one worried about how an ID [...]

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No, wait, come back!
The Pet Shop Boys (yeah, I didn’t know they were still around either) have released a new video for their single “Integral”. It is, in their own words
“… sung from the point of view of the authoritarian New Labour-style government. “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear” is always [...]

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Following on from Iain Dale’s Top 100 Lib Dem Blogs (PDF), he has released his Guide to Political Blogging in the UK and it’s available for free here.

I’ve put up a presentation I had to do on ID cards for a solicitors recruitment day on my other site, I’m sure someone will find it of [...]

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On UK Polling Report:
“A new ICM poll commissioned by the No2ID campaign is the first to show a majority of people opposed to the introduction of ID cards… The latest poll shows that 47% of people think the introduction of ID cards would be a good idea, 51% think they would be a bad idea [...]

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The Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) is fighting the decision of the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas that they should publish its findings about how ID Cards could fight ID fraud.
It’s quite simple really, they want more information from you, but they’re not willing to tell you what they’re going to do with it.

A spokesperson [...]

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Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington)
John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone)
Katy Clark (Ayrshire North and Arran)
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead)
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North)
Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Ann Cryer (Keighley)
Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras)
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich)
Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow)
Ian [...]

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