Thanks for the summary. A lot of what Richard Thomas said was similar to what I put in my submission - so it must be right :-)

Encouraging, although there's no guarantee the Committee will pay attention. And even if they do, Big Blunkett will probably just ignore them.

whats the point in fighting? theyll prob eventually stop us from buying food without an i.d card and freeze your bank account or something, theyll getus in little pods running power stations off us eventually like the matrix. its sounds far fetched but a lot more probable than blunkett listening to ANY objections from anyone in the country. All our money, shares supposed "wealth" (therefore power)is just numbers on a computer. whatwould it take for them to just delete those without id cards? and what could we possibly do about it if they did?