NO2ID

About 5 seconds of presumably today's demo with No2ID & Liberty banners.

And Channel 4 News too, about 10 seconds of No2ID banners. And another five seconds in the summary.

They also showed Davies' "surveillance from the cradle to the grave" soundbite, in a 6 minute article.

Their reporter at Westminster said the Campaign Group's had withdrawn their reasoned amendment but the Whips are suspecting an ambush. Yeah we wish.

Still no mention of our Identity Numbers in the debate AFAIK.

I've just done a very brief count of the postings on the BBC's 'have you say' section of their news website.

15 broadly in favour and 55 broadly against. There were about ten that were neutral or undecided. Of the 55 against I guess half were based soley on cost or IT fallibility rather than civil liberty considerations.

So, one wonders, will Aunty Beeb be any more critical? I hardly think so looking at their coverage on their web pages, they really are pussyfooting around the objections to it all.

Justin.

I noticed this - it is quite a reversal of previous 'have your say' pages.

However, the BBC has improved massively over the past 2 days in their coverage. Let us hope their ratings & feedback improve correspondingly.