{"id":258,"date":"2006-07-25T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=258"},"modified":"2006-07-25T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:38:30","slug":"reiding-betwen-the-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Reiding betwen the lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/07\/24\/passport_fees\/\">reports<\/a> that the cost of passports will increase considerably yet again &#8211; this october &#8211; to \u00a366(6) making it look increasingly likely that a stand alone pasport will be near the \u00a393 mark by the ID card system is dumped upon the nation i.e. the government will crow that the ID card is in effect gratis. So where will the money go? Either to pump-prime the NIR system or for the closing down of <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/homeaffairs\/story\/0,,1828339,00.html\">UK borders<\/a> that Reid seems hell bent on. You need a lot of money for watch towers and barbed wire around a whole island.<\/p>\n<p>Either way it makes even more sense to renew your passport before NIR information auditing\/stockpiling is a matter of course at the IPS.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just noticed the price rise is covered in <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,1828271,00.html\">the guardian<\/a> too and they include a statement from NO2ID etc, hats off and may it continue.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally I have good word that travelling within the EU only UK immigration officials can actually be bothered to use machine readers, it would be nice to verify this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register reports that the cost of passports will increase considerably yet again &#8211; this october &#8211; to \u00a366(6) making it look increasingly likely that a stand alone pasport will be near the \u00a393 mark by the ID card system is dumped upon the nation i.e. the government will crow that the ID card is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}