Open letter to MP on subject of ID cards

From the archive, first published Saturday 26th Nov 2005.

I have written an open letter to Ms Snelgrove for your readers to consider: Dear Ms Snelgrove, Several of our group are constituents of yours.

These people have certainly written to you, in some cases more than once, to assert their opposition to the Government's plan to introduce a National Identity register as part of the ID card bill. As you have replied to these constituents I have to assume that you did in fact receive their letters. I therefore invite you to correct your reported statement in the Swindon Advertiser of November 19 that. "Of the thousands of letters I've received on the subject of ID cards, not one has come out in opposition to identity cards." It being extremely unusual for people to write to their MP to say that they are in favour of a Government proposal, I wonder if you meant to say that you had received thousands of letters in opposition to ID cards?

L WARREN

NO2ID, Broad Town

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