It would also seem worth pointing out that when all of us airside workers have these wonderful ID cards, there will have to be scanners/readers at all airside locations to check us in/out.
So now all the logistics are in place; who is to say that from a given date anyone wishing to leave or enter the UK will have to have an ID card or not get in/out. A family wanting to go on holiday will all have to have ID cards.
This is just a government scam to track us, tax us and generally overstep the role of the government of a supposedly free society.
To work airside I have already got several forms of ID.
This has been dragged out now for years and it is just the pride of those imbeciles in Westminster who do not want to appear on the 6 O'clock news announcing another U-turn. Bulldozer politics.
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