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September 19, 2006
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Guy Herbert (London)  Humour • Privacy & Panopticon

It seems the NO2ID campaign is starting to build up some momentum. We are not just nerds and rabble-rousers any more. We are nerds, rabble-rousers and comedians.

Yes, it is time for a comedy benefit. When 10 of the sharpest acts from the London stand-up circuit turn out on a Sunday night to support a two-year-old pressure-group, you feel we might just be getting somewhere...

By numbering everybody and everything, the world is going to be a better place? Unless you’re a bureaucrat, that’s a laughable idea. So why not laugh at it? That's what we intend to do at the Hackney Empire on the evening of October 1st.

Those of you in other parts of the world will just have to content yourselves with sending money to help save what remains of British liberty... but if you are handy for London, please come along. You can even book online (£12.50 a seat) by clicking the jolly banner:

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this is quite meaningful...

Perhaps, but it is also utterly off topic... deleted

[An editor got there first. That'll teach me to sleep - GH]


Posted by keller at September 19, 2006 10:04 PM

Best of luck with it Guy!

And 12.50 isn't bad money.

Alas, I'll be stuck in Manchester. Got a wedding to plan. My own. If you thought organising a high profile pressure group was complicated and time consuming...

More seriously, if the ID scheme goes ahead it will end up like the poll tax. An immensely costly failure. I just don't see it sticking.

Of course I also disagree with it on a large number of points of both practicality and procedure.

An idea which is both wrong in principle and wrong in practice. The sort of thing governments fall over...


Posted by Nick M at September 19, 2006 11:07 PM

The last time I went to this theatre, it was to watch Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet. 11 years ago! Arrgh! I will try to make it along. Thanks for the tip, Guy.


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at September 19, 2006 11:21 PM
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