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Originally Posted by freezin
The protests started because there was no state of emergency. To its credit, the government of Winston Churchill scrapped the cards soon after winning the 1951 General Election.
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Scapped due to a judge deciding that there was no state of emergency, and therefore no requirement for ID cards, not because of public protests.
It's like saying the governments decision to allow the first 2500L of biofuel to be tax free was due to public protest, not due to it otherwise breaching the Kyoto treaty or costing HMRC too much to process tiny sums of duty payments.