All our children are now recorded on the Government's ContactPoint database, whereas the children of MPs can be "shielded" to protect their privacy.

Hundreds of MPs voted in favour of each and every one of us being fingerprinted for the ID database and having an ID card.

Yet very few have chosen to get one themselves, even though they're not available to those who volunteer.

Many of these same MPs voted to exempt themselves from the Freedom of Information Act, all in the name of their "privacy", while passing laws that erode all of our privacy. The hypocrisy has to end.

As part of the POWER2010 campaign we have called on all candidates in our area to promise that if they are elected they will vote to repeal the Identity Cards Act 2006 – and will defend our privacy as fiercely as they would defend their own and that of their family.

And we have asked them to do so publicly, by writing to this paper.

Doug Holly, Owen Williams, Janet Porteous, Johnnie Shannon, Leicester.