Labour is counting on the politics of fear, ratcheting up talk of threats, crime and insecurity. While the Conservatives are re-working their populist scares about asylum and the European 'menace'.Hatten av. Och ja, Liberaldemokraterna är givetvis emot införandet av integritetskränkande ID-kort. Mark Oaten, skuggminister:
There is a real danger of sleepwalking into a massive change in our society. The plans mean that every adult in the UK will be fingerprinted and will have to get used to daily identity checks. Ethnic minorities are likely to be disproportionately targeted.
I am a research fellow at the University of Oxford. However, most of my appearances in the blogosphere - particularluy the less thought-out ones - are not in that capacity.