raden wrote:
In message , Mike
writes


"Joe" wrote in message
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wrote:
So if a new government, of whatever party, enacts a law on May 6th (or
10th, or whenever it gets its act together) requiring compulsory ID
cards, we can... do what, exactly?


You ignore it and wait to be prosecuted in a lower court, appeal and then
ask the appeal court judges to strike the case. If they do HMG then
appeals
to law lords who either support the legislation or more likely throw
it out.

You then go to the european court of human rights, win and then discover
that HMG says they don't recognise it anymore

I don't think we can reasonably expect an EU court to disapprove of
compulsory identity cards. Almost certainly, there is an EU dimension to
the government's obsession with them.