Identity crisis

In 1976, when Denis Healey had to turn back from Heathrow & introduce an emergency cost cutting budget to meet the IMF demands, the one thing he had to say which was greeted with a cheer was that he was cancelling the 1976 Census.


This was the first time that it had been proposed to hold a full national census more frequently than once a decade (there had been a problematic 10% Sample Census in 1966)

There was however a not inconsiderable body of opposition to the government poking its nose into the citizens private business in this way & keeping the information on a computer

What is the betting that one of Alistair Darling’s efficiency savings to be announced today will be the cancellation of the compulsory national identity card scheme?

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