National ID Cards

trippy

If the card is to be rendered worthless, people who bought one based on an informed choice of it being a valid form of ID, valid for 10 years and that if another Government axed it, it would STILL be valid (which I was told when applying) should get a refund. FACT.

trets77

Janeyjaz wrote: »

Mr Lahey and I won't get into anykind of argument over it - I am giving you precise facts - not things the press write, so you can believe who you will.

you won't be getting into any kind of argument you will lose in other words .

trippy wrote: »

The fact is that people have paid for something in good faith that was supposed to be valid for 10 years and it has been taken away

only valid as long as the scheme is going . please don't pretend to be all hard done by . you knew when you got it , it's future was shaky at best .

trippy wrote: »

Teresa May says we can at least keep this card as a souvenir, which is patronising and offensive. I honestly think that because the majority of the people who have them are in the north, she doesn't give a !!!!.

no she just knows that people who signed up for one had other motives for getting it . I.E showing support for their broken Labour party , and it's unwanted policy .

trippy wrote: »

I don't see why the database can't be kept. Whether or not David Scameron and his boyfriend think it infringes civil liberties is moot, people have voluntarily chosen to have their data put on a database so clearly don't have a problem.

maybe you the ones that want to keep it , can pay for it yourselves , out of your own pocket . i think my taxes could be spent better than on a unworkable , prohibitive expensive , civil liberty infringing , open to abuse , Big Brother ID card .

trippy wrote: »

If the card is to be rendered worthless, people who bought one based on an informed choice of it being a valid form of ID, valid for 10 years and that if another Government axed it, it would STILL be valid (which I was told when applying) should get a refund. FACT.

The Tories said VERY clearly that if they got in , they would be scrapping it and you will have spent money for nothing . or do you just believe everything the current government tells you without question ??

fools and their money :D

trippy

I don't want to keep it. I just don't want the Tories to stick two fingers up to the people who have chosen to get the ID cards and tell them that they've completed wasted their money. And presumably those people are supposed to just go 'oh okay then'?

trippy

The Tories said VERY clearly that if they got in , they would be scrapping it and you will have spent money for nothing . or do you just believe everything the current government tells you without question ??

Well I don't remember it being an absolute given that the Tories would get in so not sure why you expect me to have lived my life on the assumption that they would?

fools and their money :D

A double grin? You must be very proud of yourself.

trets77

trippy wrote: »

Well I don't remember it being an absolute given that the Tories would get in so not sure why you expect me to have lived my life on the assumption that they would?

A double grin? You must be very proud of yourself.

yet you are now cheesed off because of the Assumption that your ID card would still be valid when new government got it . and the Assumption that they would refund your money .

Question to you : why did you not just wait until you saw which way the election went ? . you knew it was coming , you knew the Labour were behind in the polls and you knew that the other main political parties had vowed to scrap them .

your not cheesed off that you are out of pocket , your unhappy Mr Cameron is in Downing street .

trippy

trets77 wrote: »

yet you are now cheesed off because of the Assumption that your ID card would still be valid when new government got it . and the Assumption that they would refund your money .

The assumption I have referred to is the assumption that the Tories would get in.

Question to you : why did you not just wait until you saw which way the election went ? . you knew it was coming , you knew the Labour were behind in the polls and you knew that the other main political parties had vowed to scrap them .

I was TOLD by the passport office that the ID card would still be valid after the election, no matter who got in.

your not cheesed off that you are out of pocket , your unhappy Mr Cameron is in Downing street .

On the contrary, I'm very much looking forward to him stepping up to the plate and sorting out the country's problems and financial woes. If he accomplishes it I'll be very pleased. But would rather he didn't stick his fingers up at me and 14,999 other poeple in the process.

trets77

I was TOLD by the passport office that the ID card would still be valid after the election, no matter who got in.

then you need to stop being so Naive . they had no right what so ever to give such worthless assurances .

trippy

I do wonder if you can see the irony in that last comment?:rotfl:

moonrakerz

Everyone seems to be forgetting the fact that even the Labour government "watered down" the ID card so much that by the time it came into widespread use it would have only been of use to "scrape your windscreen".

deegee999

On the contrary, I'm very much looking forward to him stepping up to the plate and sorting out the country's problems and financial woes. If he accomplishes it I'll be very pleased. But would rather he didn't stick his fingers up at me and 14,999 other poeple in the process

No he's not he's doing what several millions wanted him to do with ID cards, hopefully they will put the eborders shambles next.
Any one who thought brown & his clowns would get in again is really living on a different planet.