Why this blogger won't be shopping at Sainsburys any more...

Outside a Sainsbury's store recently, we noticed a sign informing shoppers that the supermarket chain will soon be moving to a 'Think 25' policy. In practise, it means that if you look 25 or under, you are likely to be asked to prove your identity in order to buy cigarettes or alcohol.

Now, we appreciate that both products have a legal age for purchasing these. Fair enough.

However, why 25? And why now?

It seems somewhat suspicious to us that the store would adopt such a policy at a time when ZaNuLiebour are trying to impose compulsory biometric identity cards and a sinister database that goes with it on an unwilling nation.

Now, we might be rather cynical - admittedly. We might be prone to considering conspiracy theories - admittedly.

But it does seems somewhat convenient to ZaNuLiebour, this new policy of Sainsbury's.

Nobody wants the ID cards. But if no-one can buy anything without one, then they'll have to get one.

Let's not start off with the population as a whole - let's start on the up-to-25 age group and make them think it quite normal to have to prove your identity to any Tom, Dick or Harry who demands it.

Not in our name, you don't.

Now, there's a very good chance that there's nothing sinister behind Sainsbury's decision to move to this policy. Indeed, their corporate website presents it as a policy receiving "positive feedback" and is part of their commitment to the "responsible sale of products".

This blog author is extremely unlikely to be effected by the 'Think 25' policy of the Sainsbury's supermarket chain.

Yet to us, it represents another step on the road to 'bye-byes' for our civil liberties.

At some point, we all have to make a stand against anyone and everyone dictating every tiny aspect of our lives and thinking they are entitled to demand to intrude upon our private lives and our identities whenever they feel like it.

We can understand people who look under eighteen being challenged - fine.

However, challenging people who look under 25 is a step too far. We view it with deep distrust and suspicion.

And for that reason, we'll be boycotting Sainsbury's for as long as they maintain such a policy. It's a shame. It's a nice supermarket that sells nice things.

But we're not going to give encouragement or business to any organisation that thinks it can demand to know the minute detail of all aspects of our lives.

We've had enough of the mission creep. Enough of the police state. Enough of civil liberties being eroded. To us, a 'Think 25' policy is another brick in the wall.

We'll shop elsewhere.