Sadly this meeting didnt go all that well. I had major issues with my transportation in form of a coolant leak which majorly disrupted my punctuality. Thankfully the engine survived it so nuff said there.
When I made it, many members seemingly were unable to make it which was a bit of a shame but also a blessing as I would have kept them all waiting.
Brian thankfully was able to make it so I updated him on the situation as to where we were with the website migration (completed) and showed him a number of emails from various members of the Worcester County Council.
I must have misinterpreted one of them as a key member was quite positive and encouraging on the topic putting forward a motion against ID Card within the council. As Brian has more experience with them than me I have left it to him to find the best candidate to carry this motion and hopefully draft something up!
Quite a productive session despite being 4 down!
I suspected this might happen, when some of the NO2ID lot decided to pay peaceful protest to the a public meeting which had about as much public in it as chalk has cheese. Mostly people with a vested commercial interest in it. Naturally it came as a rather nasty surprise when some NO2ID folks turned up inside and outside the venue.
Instead of just being decent and either allowing questions asked from a member whom had managed to make it inside the conference room, they did the silly thing and decided to have the lot of them arrested.
Now from watching documentaries like Taking Liberties, its pretty clear that when you arrest peaceful protesters that have done next to sod all wrong, you tend to look like the bad guy. The example that comes to mind most notably was when a Vegan Chef from the Hastings area was arrested for reading out the names of the dead as a result of the Iraq war.
She became a minor celebrity.
I must commend the government on this one. They realised how the arrest of the NO2ID Nine already looked. With the David Davis byelection being quite big in the news I reckon it must have been clear (as they hate actually debating anything to do with civil liberties) that this would being ID cards to the forefront of the media was the last thing they wanted and funnily enough all charges were dropped.
