So foreign nationals, or the ‘dirty immigrants’ as the government likes to call them are to receive ID cards. It seems that the people from the No2ID campaign have missed the point slightly; they’re happy to talk about ’salami slicing’ the measures in to bring in the ID system, but why is no one talking about the implicit racism involved here? It’s a multilayered thing. We are supposed to have a British identity and a European identity – at least politically. So we’re not racist against Brits or EU residents. But everyone else is a threat to our borders, just like people from European countries were before the EU.
In one way I’m quite glad this is coming in to effect. It’s exactly what I’ll be talking about in my thesis.
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