Home Office stonewalls ID findings

The Home Office is refusing to release ‘research’ it carried out which was meant to prove just how very keen young people in the UK are to get hold of a delicious ID card.

The department blew almost £80,000 setting up a site to find out what people aged between 16 and 25 thought of ID cards. The site operated from July to mid-October and was run by Virtual Surveys. It suffered some early teething problems when admins were accused of censoring comments.

Alongside a survey the youths were also asked to give their opinion of the project in 200 words. Many managed to do so in less than 200 words. “Don’t need, don’t want and won’t have one. Catch terrorist’s my ****. One word: Control.” was one of our favourites.

Originally the survey results, and the summaries, were to be published on the mylifemyid website.

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