{"id":2069,"date":"2008-11-27T12:56:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2008-11-27T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:56:42","slug":"britains-gaijin-card-system-comes-online-uk-telegraph-warns-against-potential-foreign-celebrity-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s “Gaijin Card” system comes online: UK Telegraph warns against potential foreign celebrity backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. \u00a0Compare and contrast the introduction of fingerprinting (moreover Gaijin Cards) for foreigners in the UK. At least high-profile Britons are protesting it, and the media (the conservative media, even) is giving them a voice. That’s more than can be said for Japan last year around November 20, when the J media suppressed the opinion of NJ residents and NGOs when fingerprinting was reintroduced.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Still sad that these ID carding tendencies for foreigners only are spreading. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Celebrities like Madonna won’t come to Britain because of ID cards<\/h1>\n

Britain will suffer cultural and economic damage from the introduction of identity cards for foreigners, preventing stars such as Madonna staying in the UK, according to a group of academics and writers.<\/h2>\n

By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daily Telegraph,\u00a0Last Updated: 8:20AM GMT 25 Nov 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/3512924\/US-celebrities-like-Madonna-wont-come-to-Britain-because-of-ID-cards.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy of Sendaiben<\/p>\n

From today, anyone from outside the European Union who wants to live and work in the UK for more than six months will have to apply for a compulsory British ID card.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, wants 90 per cent of foreign residents in Britain to have identity cards by 2014.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To get an ID card, people will have their faces scanned and will have to give 10 fingerprints.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Campaigners fear that this will put off celebrities like American singer Madonna from setting up home here and so damage the cultural life of the nation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group including author Philip Pullman, musicians Neil Tennant and Brian Eno, campaigning QC Baroness Kennedy and comedians Mark Thomas and Lucy Porter, warn of the damage to Britain’s image abroad.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Footballers, such as Manchester City’s \u00a332.5million Brazilian striker Robinho, would also have to carry ID cards if they came to the UK after today.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The letter says: “If this scheme is continued … fewer of the world’s leading performers in every field will choose to make their homes here than do now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Successful foreigners such as Robinho or Kevin Spacey, and the overseas students who subsidise our universities, have a lot of choice where they study or exercise their talents. Some will decide Britain has become too unfriendly.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The group, which also Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti and singer Crispian Mills, also warns of a steep drop in fee income as foreigners decide that the UK is not a “friendly” country to come to study.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It warns: “If this scheme is continued it will lead to less fee-income and lower international status for our educational institutions.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“British students will have to pay higher tuition to make up, and will have less money to spend with local businesses. ‘ID cards for foreigners’ is not just a small-minded slogan – Britain will suffer culturally and economically.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Last night Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, supported the concerns that British cultural life will lose out from the introduction of ID cards.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

He said: “Foreign nationals continue to make an enormous contribution to British culture, from the Premier League to the performing arts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“If these people choose to go elsewhere to places that won’t treat them like criminals, this country will be all the poorer for it.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking yesterday ahead of the first ID cards being issued, Miss Smith said: “In time identity cards for foreign nationals will replace paper documents and give employers a safe and secure way of checking a migrant’s right to work and study in the UK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“The Australian-style points system will ensure only those we need – and no more – can come here. It is also flexible, allowing us to raise or lower the bar according to the needs of business and taking population trends into account.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compare and contrast the introduction of fingerprinting (moreover Gaijin Cards) for foreigners in the UK. At least Britons are protesting it, and the media is giving them a voice. That’s more than can be said for Japan last year around November 20, when the media suppressed the opinion of NJ residents and NGOs:<\/p>\n

Daily Telegraph: From today, anyone from outside the European Union who wants to live and work in the UK for more than six months will have to apply for a compulsory British ID card.<\/p>\n

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, wants 90 per cent of foreign residents in Britain to have identity cards by 2014.<\/p>\n

To get an ID card, people will have their faces scanned and will have to give 10 fingerprints.<\/p>\n

Campaigners fear that this will put off celebrities like American singer Madonna from setting up home here and so damage the cultural life of the nation.<\/p>\n

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group including author Philip Pullman, musicians Neil Tennant and Brian Eno, campaigning QC Baroness Kennedy and comedians Mark Thomas and Lucy Porter, warn of the damage to Britain’s image abroad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22,33,5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-cultural-issue","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}