
if the Home Office puts your details in wrong (a typo, for example, or a bit of dodgy OCR), then...er...you're responsible
'umm...it says you're called Mr Thmopson'
'no, I'm Mr Thompson'
'hmm...it doesn't match. I'll have to detain you'
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Wed 6 May 2009, 14:15,
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'umm...it says you're called Mr Thmopson'
'no, I'm Mr Thompson'
'hmm...it doesn't match. I'll have to detain you'

No I'm mr Thmopson . Mr Thompson owes you £50,000. go get that guy.
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I have loads of fun with this - my first name isn't my given name; my dad wanted to name me after his dad, my mother didn't, so my first name is my granddad's name but I never use it, except on forms... so:
"what's your name Sir...?"
"well - it could be one of two things"
"No - it couldn't..."
all that aside - I might not be fundamentally opposed to some sort of citizenship register, they already have so many of our details anyway a card's not going to make fuck all difference, but the reasons they give for needing it are the same tenuous ones they give for everything else there's a sinister ulterior motive for (*cough* Iraq *cough*) and I think it's due in no small part to having shoddy hopeless lazy spineless Home Secretaries... who let the police (who think everyone is a potential criminal) get away with fucking murder.
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Wed 6 May 2009, 14:21,
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"what's your name Sir...?"
"well - it could be one of two things"
"No - it couldn't..."
all that aside - I might not be fundamentally opposed to some sort of citizenship register, they already have so many of our details anyway a card's not going to make fuck all difference, but the reasons they give for needing it are the same tenuous ones they give for everything else there's a sinister ulterior motive for (*cough* Iraq *cough*) and I think it's due in no small part to having shoddy hopeless lazy spineless Home Secretaries... who let the police (who think everyone is a potential criminal) get away with fucking murder.