From: George Sherwood 

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:18:10 -0500, Rich Gauszka wrote:

> and they admitted that the 'voluntary' part was a sham
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/14/id_card_amendments_reversed/
> The British Parliament has kicked out Lords amendments to the ID Card Bill
> today that would have made their use voluntary.
>
> The amendments were seen as a defeat for the government when they were made
> by the House of Lords on 23 January. The Lords attempt to make ID cards
> voluntary was defeated this afternoon by a vote of 310 to 279.
>
> Home Secretary Charles Clarke admitted the scheme was "designed to
> eventually become compulsory." A commitment had also been made to move to
> biometric identification in a UN security resolution

And I know that Adam will be really watching tomorrow, looks like they will
vote on some type of smoking ban. All the options are really confusing.
Thought it was nice though that they would vote on it for England, but
decided to just implement in Northern Ireland.

George

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