Cllr Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
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Letter for Publication

Dear Editor

If readers are 16 or over and haven't yet got a ten-year adult passport, then they should apply for one BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF APRIL 2007.

From  26th March this year, the Identity and Passport Service opens some new offices as part of the build up to the ID card scheme that the government wants to introduce. (including my own City of Liverpool)

By the end of the year there will be 69 of these interrogation centres, and people applying for their first adult passport from April 2007 will be guinea-pigs for a process the government is calling "Authentication by Interview".

All the information collected during these interviews will be kept on file for ever.
It will certainly end up more expensive than the £66 passports currently cost, too, since we will have to pay for officials to gather a dossier on you and the perform an "intrusive interview" as part of the price for the enforced visit to an interrogation centre.

If you care about your freedoms, and object to having government officials poking around in your private life - or your friends' and family's - then please apply for your first adult passport BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF APRIL 2007

After the initial launch this government intends to demand people attend and oblige employers release employees to attend interrogation centres

Every opposition party is pledged to abolish this ID card scheme. Help us beat Big Brother

So apply now and beat their interrogation which includes finger printing us all like criminals.

To find out more please visit No2ID.org.uk

Cllr Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party