Ian Swales' "Police not ID Cards" Campaign

Ian Swales, the Lib Dem's Redcar Constituency prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Glyn Nightingale and Lib Dem Team member, Tina Meir, went to Eston Police Station to check whether it was open.

We found that it is closed every day except Wednesdays.

Ian Swales writes -

"As I write the police are still looking for who shot an 11 year old boy in Liverpool. Gun crime has been increasing yet the Government STILL hasn't implemented the hand gun register recommended after the Dunblane massacre in 1996.

Local Liberal Democrats were recently involved in the case of a respectable 15 year old boy who was beaten up by about 10 youths wielding iron and wooden bars in the Bankfields Road area of Eston. The response by our hard working police force to this incident showed just how stretched they are. Charges are unlikely.

It's clear from talking to residents that crime remains a major concern.

This Government has not policed our borders properly, not given us enough front line police and failed to build enough prisons. They admit that the Home Office, that looks after these things, has been failing. There isn't much more to get wrong! Now they want to spend billions on a complicated ID card system which will have no impact on most crime.
We say the money should be spent putting more police on the streets."

What do you think? Let us know.