UK: Don’t Like ID Cards? Hand Over Your Passport
March 11th, 2007And then it was too late.
Via: Daily Mail:
Anybody who objects to their personal details going on the new “Big Brother” ID cards database will be banned from having a passport.
James Hall, the official in charge of the supposedly-voluntary scheme, said the Government would allow people to opt out – but in return they must “forgo the ability” to have a travel document.
With one in every eight people saying they will refuse to sign-up, up to five million adults could effectively be refused permission to leave the country.
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I have Irish citizenship as a backup, a quirky benefit of being born on the island of Ireland, albeit the British part. However, I´m expecting some kind of catalyzing event sooner or later to render the rest of Europe as enslaved as the UK is becoming.
cryingfreeman,
If you’re staying in Europe, Ireland (Republic of) is a great choice in my opinion. I’ve only personally been there a couple of times, but I REALLY liked it. I fell in love with the area around Newgrange, and Drogheda was just enough civilization for me.
When it was all said and done, where did John Seymour, author of The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It, wind up? Wexford, Ireland.
Ireland is in boomtimes mode now. It seems like the place to be, at least for the moment, business wise. The thing about Ireland is that, even though times have never been better, everyone knows about hard times. If things get weird, Ireland will fare better than lots of other places.
Do you have any contacts in France? The Loire Valley is easily one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. It’s slow. Agriculture is local. People seemed to be living very well there. I was just a tourist, of course, but I had a great experience there.
Ireland has small government, minimal bureacracy (compared to the UK), no obscene taxes, a laid back culture, gorgeous scenery and good fertile land. My only quibble with Ireland, apart from obscene real estate prices, is the climate`s effects on my respiratory disease (asthma and some other mystery ailment that tickles the throat out of me at night). Its economy is strong, but they have borrowed massively from the EU, especially the Germans. Their chief economist (whose name eludes me right now) is urging them to withdraw entirely from the EU and focus on their banking services (i.e. become a full blooded tax haven).
Yes, I noticed Seymour lives down south and yes, his book is something else – one of the ones I´ll be scanning and storing on my flash drive in case I ever need to flee with my library.
I only have one contact in France but alas, her home region is Lille in the north. Loire Valley is a favourite place for a lot of us to go to on summer driving trips, although I confess I´ve not been there yet myself. France has ghastly taxes and property laws, though. Still, it´s nowhere near as enslaved as the UK!!!