I recently visited the US. To enter the country, you have to have your picture and fingerprints taken at the border. If you visit somewhere that requires an entry card, you also have to have you fingerprint scanned to make sure you are the same person using the card for whom it was purchased for (ie, you can't hand your unused tickets on to someone else.
I thought that was bad enough but I looked out of my bedroom window this morning to see a DVLA van, Loaded with cameras, cruising my street. I presume it was looking for cars parked on the street with no tax and any parked on driveways with no tax or SORN. If the authorities can apply this method of control over the car tax you pay, how come they can't even tell if the person teaching your kids is safe to do so?
I think it's about the will to do so. The government thinks more about getting in the revenue which is why they spend more money linking systems to chase you for money, then they do linking systems to protect individuals.
Big Brother IS watching you - George Orwell was right!
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"If the authorities can apply this method of control over the car tax you pay"
It's basically not control though. Control would be running a system where everyone paid up. What they're doing with cameras and vans and bullyboy TV ads is ostentatiously shutting the stable door after THEY kicked the horse out. The whole system of car tax is so ludicrous it beggars belief. Rather than just slap it on fuel, where it would be un-dodgable and hit the gas-guzzlers proportionately, the powers that be persist with a sytem which encourages fraud and demands countless hours and quids-worth of policing to very little effect.
The Government would LOVE us to believe that Big Brother is watching. But the fact that they feel the need to broadcast TV adverts boasting about their TV Licence database tells a different story: One of bluff, bluster, and - utimately - impotence. Perhaps they need your particle accelerator Becka.
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