Good law, bad law?

The government’s been busy over the last two days passing a couple of laws that will have a tangible impact on people’s lives in the UK.
First the smoking ban will come into force next summer in all enclosed public spaces and second ID cards will be introduced in 2008.

I’m not bothered about the smoking ban as I don’t smoke but I just wonder if the anti-smoking lobby will morph into the anti-drinking lobby using a lot of the same arguments, ‘public health…people need to be saved from themselves…only the government can do it’.
Might seem crazy but go back twenty years and what was legal is now illegal and vice versa.

I’m in two minds about ID cards, they might stop some petty crime but they won’t deter a suicide bomber. Britain’s had a tradition of citizens not being obliged to produce id on demand and its a shame to get rid of that.
The borders are open anyway and illegals and potential terrorists can get in no problem and the police don’t detain them when they find them, so it will just be the law abiding people who will come under a bit more of the big brother spotlight.

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