Take your ID card and stick it

This is encouraging: "The first signs of a significant popular revolt against the Government's identity card scheme have been uncovered by a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph" and revolt may not be an inappropriate term:

More than a third of the 39 per cent who object - representing more than 10 per cent of the population - suggested they might take their opposition to considerable lengths.

Considerable numbers claim they would be prepared to pay a small or even a heavy fine for refusing to acquire a card and some say they would to go to prison. Nearly one in 10 is happy to say: "I will acquire a card but publicly destroy it".

The numbers involved are not inconsequential: "If just two in every 100 person over 16 refused to sign up, the Goverment would be pursuing one million people." They're hardly likely to catch all of us.

Get involved now and you can say you were there before it got trendy.