zero1212 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Students will be "blackmailed" into holding identity cards in order to apply for student loans, the Tories have warned.According to Home Office documents leaked to the Conservative party last night, those applying for student loans will be forced to hold identity cards to get the funding from 2010.Anyone aged 16 or over will be expected to obtain a card - costing up to £100 - to open a bank account or apply for a student loan.The document says: "We should issue ID cards to young people to assist them as they open their first bank account, take out a student loan, etc."The government had planned to start issuing the ID cards to people applying for a passport from 2010, but confidential documents confirm that the scheme will be delayed to at least 2012.The biometric cards are due to be introduced for foreign nationals later this year, with the first expected to be issued to UK citizens on a voluntary basis from 2009.From next year, they will also be issued to people in "positions of trust" such as airport workers.The revelations have led to concerns that the government is planning to collect the fingerprints and other biometric details of more than two million young people entering higher education each year by stealth.Shadow immigration minister Damian Green called the plans "straightforward blackmail" to bolster "a failing policy"."This is an outrageous plan. The government has seen its ID cards proposals stagger from shambles to shambles. They are clearly trying to introduce them by stealth." http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,332225471-103690,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
time_bomb Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 in 2010 i deffo wont be a student, and hopefully wont even be in this country, so they can shove their id card up their ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 in 2010 i deffo wont be a student, and hopefully wont even be in this country, so they can shove their id card up their ass.I swear half of vip2 'wont be in this country' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caine Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 in 2010 i deffo wont be a student, and hopefully wont even be in this country, so they can shove their id card up their ass.I swear half of vip2 'wont be in this country' because it is a sh*t hole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemma Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 why isnt a passport enough id for the government?i'm not paying £100 for a card, thats ridiculous, passports, driving licences, visas etc dont even cost that much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtis Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 in 2010 i deffo wont be a student, and hopefully wont even be in this country, so they can shove their id card up their ass.I swear half of vip2 'wont be in this country' lolbut f*ckin hell this si a sh*t ideathey jus wont let it go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Q Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Will have graduated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Eric Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 in 2010 i deffo wont be a student, and hopefully wont even be in this country, so they can shove their id card up their ass.I swear half of vip2 'wont be in this country' Gassed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nola D Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Will have graduated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karizma Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 u know back home u used to get beats if u ddnt have an id card...funny thatK-dot.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brukfoot Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 what is wrong with ID cards again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karizma Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 what is wrong with ID cards again?stage 1 of a police stateK-dot.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Train Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I dont really get how its blackmail as them saying you can only get a student loan if you hold an ID card is the same as them saying you can only get a student loan if you have a bank account. Thats not blackmail, I dont think. Also, its not the governments way of forcing student to obtain the cards because when they are introduced, they will HAVE to have one, BY LAW. Maybe im missing something olol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero1212 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 ^^ ye but since the conservatives dont want them (so they say) the current govt knows that it could lead them to lose the next election if they make it the law Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karizma Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 im sure the govt wil be glad to see how passive our generation is...the olders wudnt hav itK-dot.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ant Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 ID Cards will never happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Em Dott Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I will have graduated by then. And f*ck this ID Card. I don't like this whole thing of them having complete access to my information and my doings. I'm no criminal, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't have the right to have some privacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKE HEED Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 im sure the govt wil be glad to see how passive our generation is...the olders wudnt hav itK-dot.1all im sayin is RIOT.my and cipher know wots good. what bout the rest of u.join the revolution.v im gna hold it dwn 4 nw along wid sum others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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