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Yeah, as a forrin I always saw the left and liberal resistance against the ID card scheme as a collective case of the genetic fallacy; if the Tories want it it must be bad.
A centralised citizen registry would have been a perfect baseline against which one could measure any number of social ills. The ones that immediately come to (my) mind would be homelessness and unemployment. In the UK, it seems perfectly possible for a homeless person to gradually fall out of every registry and eventually not exist in an official capacity at all.When they tried to bring them in I would've argued vociferously with you on everything you've said. With the benefit of hindsight, I agree with it all.
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Yeah, as a forrin I always saw the left and liberal resistance against the ID card scheme as a collective case of the genetic fallacy; if the Tories want it it must be bad.
A centralised citizen registry would have been a perfect baseline against which one could measure any number of social ills. The ones that immediately come to (my) mind would be homelessness and unemployment. In the UK, it seems perfectly possible for a homeless person to gradually fall out of every registry and eventually not exist in an official capacity at all.