ID cards, is a tide turning?

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): According to a YouGov poll in today's Telegraph for the first time a majority oppose ID cards by 48 per cent to 43. Given the decision to impliment them is already law, there is a long way to go, not least to prevent the creation of the multi-use national database registry. But what struck me most about the story apart from the cheering news that on liberty as on Iraq the majority is proving wiser than the apparatus, is that when the question was last asked in July 2005 after the London bombings only 45 per cent were in favour and 42 per cent were opposed. But in 2003 when the idea began YouGov found 78 per cent supported it and just 15 per cent were opposed. So the greatest collapse in support was between then and 7/7 - and the terrorist attacks did very little to turn around the growing opposition. Cool.