Steve

I'm a bit concerned about some of your comments in the light of this one. The UK does have a constitution (and most of it is written down in various laws), but we do not have a single document headed "The constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". I used to think this was a strength as I (naively) thought it was harder to tamper with many documents and the first thing new dicators do is to re write the constitution, but I have been proved wrong by the government that now wants to create a database with my personal facts on it, to be sold to whichever commercial organisations donate to the Labour party, or lost on a train.

The UK is also no longer ranked very high in terms of personal freedom; you may not even protest against government policies without applying for police permission (which may be witheld without giving any reason)!

While many other countries have ID cards and some have databases, the one proposed for the UK will be one of the most all enveloping in the world (I did not say the free world, I meant the whole world; even China collects less data on its citizens than the UK). I will leaving for another European country, where I will carryy an ID card with eight pieces of data on it - 49 fewer than the UK expect from me.

Rant over, I'll try to confine myself to motorcycling issues for a while now.