{"id":1315,"date":"2005-12-06T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/06\/cameron_wins_and_tory_anti-id_pieces"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:28:34","slug":"cameron_wins_and_tory_anti-id_pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/06\/cameron_wins_and_tory_anti-id_pieces","title":{"rendered":"Cameron wins, and Tory anti-ID pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have to say I&#39;m guardedly optimistic about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/4502652.stm\">David Cameron winning the Conservative Party<\/a> leadership election.  When I saw David Davis&#39; campaign page, I saw the complaint about foreigners taking up room in British jails and knew he was going to be &quot;same old, same old&quot; and I&#39;m glad the membership have seen this.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s also a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativehome.blogs.com\/platform\/2005\/12\/keith_standring.html\">opposition to ID cards<\/a> at the Conservative Home blog.  The article covers most bases &#8211; the idea is authoritarian, costly and likely to be ineffective in reducing crime and terrorism.  My attitude has always been that the scheme is a bad thing whether it works or doesn&#39;t &#8211; I hate the idea of a government database containing all our biometrics for the same reason I hate the idea of &quot;spyware road charging&quot;.  I don&#39;t want people spying on me, which is what this amounts to.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trg.org.uk\/\">Tory Reform Group<\/a> has an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk\/about\/director-profile.shtml\">Shami Chakrabarti<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk\/\">Liberty<\/a> in the latest edition of its magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/core2.trg.org.uk\/reformer\/index.html\">Reformer<\/a> about the Tory appeal to civil libertarian concerns.  The magazine is in PDF format but is a free download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have to say I&#39;m guardedly optimistic about David Cameron winning the Conservative Party leadership election. When I saw David Davis&#39; campaign page, I saw the complaint about foreigners taking up room in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tory_stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42688,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/42688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}