Nice post Bruce.
I remember a television interview a few months ago in which Jeremy Paxman grilled a very unimpressive duty minister on this issue of non UK nationals not having criminal record checks before being issued with airport passes.
Paxman continued to press the question "how many foreign criminals are working at our airports?" The Minister had no answer and all he could do was make up some waffle about foreign staff having to go through the same security search as nationals, so "there was no security issue". Paxman let him off lightly, but it would be interesting if the same answer were asked again after we had been forced to have National ID cards.
The Minister would still not know how many foreign criminals were working at our airports.
So whats the point of it other than to waste a few more billion?
