Home Secretary's City Council Votes Against ID Cards
January 30, 2005 11:52 AM
Lib Dems are against identity cards
Norwich City Council, which covers Home Secretary Charles Clarke's Norwich South constituency, has voted to oppose ID cards. The Liberal Democrats voted to support the motion against cards in the 25th January vote but, in an embarrassment for Clarke, the Labour Group could not bring themselves to vote against and abstained.
Supporting the motion which commits the Council to affiliating to the No2ID Campaign, Cllr Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne, Lib Dem candidate for Norwich South, said:
"Finger printing ordinary people and making them feel like criminals, then charging them for the pleasure, has no place in a supposedly free and liberal society. New Labour are becoming alarmingly authoritarian, to the point where even their own council groups cannot support them."
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