The Associate Press reported yesterday —" British Home Secretary Theresa May has confirmed the ID card scheme will be scrapped within 100 days.'. See Video.

I am an American who roots for the Labor Party in their contests with Britain's Conservative Party. I rooted for Gordon Brown in the the recent election. I remember the bad old days when the team of Margaret Thatcher ran things in the United Kingdom and Ronald Wilson Reagan was the president here. The pair of them were just awful. So I am please to see that the current coalition government led, by the Tories, have stuck a blow for civil liberties by planning to scrap their country's national id card. National ID cards are a police statist idea. To its shame the Labor Party introduced them in Britain, and there have been calls to introduce them here. Well, Britain will be tossing theirs into the rubbish, which is where the cards belong. The very idea of a national ID card belongs in the rubbish. Three Cheers for their trashing.