What John Reid Should Do First

Abolish ID Cards. They won’t work and will be the biggest government disaster ever.

There are much better ways of achieving the same ends, by spending the money on more police and giving them better technology and intelligence.

A simple example, is that as an instrument engineer, I believe that technology exists to check people for knives, guns and bombs without arresting or searching them. Properly deployed this would help to stop attacks like those of July 7th last year and mistakes like the tragic shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.