One conviction of voter impersonation in 2017; zero in 2018; none in 2019. They are willing to disenfranchise millions of our own citizens, their own voters, to stop one account of voter fraud. If ever the overused adage of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut is true, it's true in this case. There is no justification at all for this heavy-handed response. 

The Conservatives will sit here, they'll hold their noses, their supporters will call the Prif Weinidog a tin-pot dictator for introducing COVID passes for a determined period of time during a public health crisis, but, Llywydd, do they not understand the very definition of irony? Ninety-nine Conservative MPs in Westminster—the largest rebellion against this Government—voted against COVID passports. Of that 99, 85 of them voted to introduce a voting ID for an indeterminate period. I don't agree with his position, but at least David Davis MP is consistent to oppose both COVID passes and voter ID. One English Tory MP cited reservations about COVID passes in fear of becoming a 'papers, please' society. Well, what about a 'photo ID, please, to vote' society? 

'I loathe the idea on principle. I never want to be commanded, by any emanation of the British state, to produce evidence of my identity.'

ID cards are

'recipes not just for waste but recipes for tyranny and oppression as well'.

Not my words, Llywydd, but the words of Boris Johnson, the very man that now wants to introduce voter IDs, a man who moves with the wind.