Government lapdog turns and bites over ID cards
Airlines anger over ID cards - Telegraph
The aviation industry is being used as a political pawn with the introduction of ID cards for its workers, airline bosses claim.
In a strongly worded letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, airline bosses said that forcing airport workers to have an ID card from November next year was "unnecessary" and "unjustified".
They wrote: "Indeed, there is a real risk that enrolment in the National ID scheme will be seen to provide an added, but ultimately false, sense of security to our processes."
They accused the Government of using aviation industry "for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support."
Ouch that hurt, normally the industry rolls over to have it tummy tickled whenever the government asks, so this shows two things, firstly how anti-ID cards they are, and secondly how weak they see the government is.
