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From The Observer, 25 June 2006:

"...campaigns are getting going in all kinds of towns - Glossop, Rhyl, Leek, Chippenham ... It is a small thing, which may not be worth mentioning, but there is a chance the pattern of the poll tax protests is being repeated. When the poll tax came to parliament, there was a noisy debate. Then it disappeared beneath the media's radar. It seemed as if the issue was dead, but at the grassroots, thousands of people were preparing for an explosion of protest.

If ID cards are as expensive, intrusive and useless as I believe they will be, we may see the same again."

Lewes says No2ID firmly believes that as more and more people come to terms with the true impact of ID cards and the database state, public opposition will grow to be as strong as public opposition was to the poll tax. And now, as then, that opposition must start in the ordinary homes on the ordinary streets of the ordinary towns and cities of Britain. It is from those ordinary homes and streets that the government's ID plans will be defeated.

Lewes is an ordinary town but it is also extraordinary. The birthplace of parliamentary democracy and the home of Thomas Paine, Lewes loves liberty and personal freedom like no other British town. And it must surely take a lead in speaking out against the iniquities of ID cards and a database state.

We hope Nick Cohen won't mind us reproducing these parts of his excellent article here. The full article is online at the Guardian Unlimited site.

lewes@no2id.net