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Want a UK Passport? ACT NOW!

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 11:48pm on 01/02/2007
If you do not have a UK adult passport and want one you need to apply AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This will let you avoid a complex, intrusive interview leading to possible later entry on the National Identity Register - as well as the added expense and delay of having to travel to an interrogation centre.

Government documents show that it expects fully 1 in 4 young people to fail to get a passport in time to make their trip because of extended delays in the new system, and it is already paying for adverts to try to fool/convince people that there is some 'benefit' for them in all this. There isn't.

Want a passport ever? Get it now, and save yourself a load of hassle.
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posted by [identity profile] randwolf.livejournal.com at 01:12am on 02/02/2007
That doesn't make sense. I mean, what, they're going to move the UK closer to Greenland?
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:27am on 02/02/2007
?????? Don't understand what you're getting at here...
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posted by [identity profile] randwolf.livejournal.com at 08:43am on 02/02/2007
Duh, sorry. The thought was, are they going to move the UK away from the Continent or what? What is the UK version of La Migra thinking?
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 10:40am on 02/02/2007
Its all part of the 'ID card and database state' agenda. ID cards will be linked to passports so they're starting to collect data from 'vulnerable' groups. They're starting with first adult passport acquirers and will be moving onto foreign nationals after that. This is a flawed policy from a failing government department which they're ramming through against increasing public opposition. Its likely to be Labour's Poll Tax.
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posted by [identity profile] ewtikins.livejournal.com at 11:45am on 02/02/2007
They're starting with first adult passport acquirers and will be moving onto foreign nationals after that.

Do I have time to finish my degree?
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 12:03pm on 02/02/2007
The legislation for this will be debated in parliament this year, so maybe not :-(
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posted by [identity profile] inamac.livejournal.com at 09:53am on 02/02/2007
I think my passport runs out in a couple of years - and I'm not sure that I want to bother with a new one (I've only used the current one twice, and the one before that once). Short of winning the lottery and emigrating to Australia I'd be quite happy not to leave the country in the foreseeable future. But I'm willing to bet that those of us who don't need/want new passports will eventually be rounded up and forced onto the database.
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posted by [identity profile] seph-hazard.livejournal.com at 11:16am on 02/02/2007
Fucking hell. I got the forms mostly fileld out last night. How long am I likely to have to get my documents together and photos done and signed before this all hits?
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 12:02pm on 02/02/2007
Weeks rather than days, I think, but the sooner the better.

Why not joing no2id and sign some of the anti-IDcard petitions at the same time? See www.no2id.net
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