taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
I've fired this letter off to my MP, who I am also disappointed in because he is an anti-war stalwart :-(
Dear Tony
I read Hansard with disappontment to learn that you were in the yes "lobby" on the recent ID card division.
I trust that having so voted you can give me a full account of how 50 million people are going to have all their fingerprints taken, their face and iris scanned and large amounts of personal information collected.
Have you been furnished by your superiors with good detail on all of the following?
i) How many "centres" there will be for the processing? Where will they be?
ii) What will be done to safeguard against extreme inconvinience with potentially huge backlogs and data errors?
ii) Who will do the recruiting and the training for the staffing of these centres?
iv) What IT software and hardware will be used, what guarantees have been made regarding it's security?
There are many more questions in a similar vein I could ask. If your true answer to any of the above is that you're "not really sure" then it was clearly and sadly an error to have given your ascent to the bill.
50 million people is an awful lot to process. I'm convinced it's been woefully inadequate forethought.
You will not be suprised that I am also against this bill for many many other reasons. You should know that although public opposition isnt galvanised at the moment there is every chance this will be an albertross around the neck of both your government and your party.
Regardless, on logistics alone this bill doesnt stand up. The fate of previous, much smaller IT projects initiated by this government does not bode well.
The database state in it's current conceptualisation has zero practical or moral legitimacy.
I look forward to your reply. Although I am not of your party I've rarely been disappointed in how you represent my views in divisions. But on this, even the tories have a more common sense stance than you and your party. Sad indeed.
Sadder still, If my questions are not answered with good clarity and thoroughness I shall be forced to conclude you have voted for a vital bill without understanding how it will be implemented. I will encourage local press to ask similar questions of you and your party. To their shame, the establishment press have not been very diligent on this issue thus far.
This will probably change the day when their families have to undergo retina scans and fingerprinting on penalty of a £2,500 fine. And all for the sake of supposedly dealing with problems like terrorism when there is far below sufficient evidence at all that the data base will do so.
Yours etc.
Mr taffboygwyrdd
Dear Tony
I read Hansard with disappontment to learn that you were in the yes "lobby" on the recent ID card division.
I trust that having so voted you can give me a full account of how 50 million people are going to have all their fingerprints taken, their face and iris scanned and large amounts of personal information collected.
Have you been furnished by your superiors with good detail on all of the following?
i) How many "centres" there will be for the processing? Where will they be?
ii) What will be done to safeguard against extreme inconvinience with potentially huge backlogs and data errors?
ii) Who will do the recruiting and the training for the staffing of these centres?
iv) What IT software and hardware will be used, what guarantees have been made regarding it's security?
There are many more questions in a similar vein I could ask. If your true answer to any of the above is that you're "not really sure" then it was clearly and sadly an error to have given your ascent to the bill.
50 million people is an awful lot to process. I'm convinced it's been woefully inadequate forethought.
You will not be suprised that I am also against this bill for many many other reasons. You should know that although public opposition isnt galvanised at the moment there is every chance this will be an albertross around the neck of both your government and your party.
Regardless, on logistics alone this bill doesnt stand up. The fate of previous, much smaller IT projects initiated by this government does not bode well.
The database state in it's current conceptualisation has zero practical or moral legitimacy.
I look forward to your reply. Although I am not of your party I've rarely been disappointed in how you represent my views in divisions. But on this, even the tories have a more common sense stance than you and your party. Sad indeed.
Sadder still, If my questions are not answered with good clarity and thoroughness I shall be forced to conclude you have voted for a vital bill without understanding how it will be implemented. I will encourage local press to ask similar questions of you and your party. To their shame, the establishment press have not been very diligent on this issue thus far.
This will probably change the day when their families have to undergo retina scans and fingerprinting on penalty of a £2,500 fine. And all for the sake of supposedly dealing with problems like terrorism when there is far below sufficient evidence at all that the data base will do so.
Yours etc.
Mr taffboygwyrdd
