Thanks for the link Philip. I have dispatched a letter to my MP but since she is in the cabinet I doubt it will do much do. Its sad to see how little coverage there has been of this bill in the press though.

ID card support collapses

More than 80 per cent now against scheme
http://www.silicon.com/0,39024729,39157146,00.htm

By Andy McCue

Published: Monday 13 March 2006

Support for the UK's national ID card scheme has fallen dramatically over the past year with more than 80 per cent of people now opposed to the controversial plans, according to a new survey of silicon.com readers.

Thanks, Philip. You will be heartened to see that this has alarmed Melanie Phillips. (Link) The piece is The Self-Neutering Parliament.

Sleepwalk just a little further, my dears. The edge of the cliff is very near now.

Well will see what the House of Lords do.

Even the Daily Telegraph has woken up to the danger (and article today).

But I do not hold out much hope - this is Britain after all.

Sauve qui peu! Soon they will put restrictions on emigration. Who'll support all the third world immigrants, deadbeats and politicans if the wealth producers all leave for capitalist societies?

Before that, they will put limitations on how much of your capital they will allow you to take out with you. I would say, if you have any capital that you're not using, get it out now. They'll start of with "temporary" freezing of assetts - "just until ..." whatever.

All this will go through with a few quibbles, but basically, the British are passive.

See also

http://www.saveparliament.org.uk/

Gracious me! Who would have thought it! Come on chaps, let's discuss counting how-many-angels again.

Yup.

No taking to the streets in absolute, righteous and frightening outrage. No. Let's dicker around with terms.

No tearing down the railings in front of Downing St because a) they don't care enough; and b), it's too late. The police around the Prime Shit are armed and would shoot the citizenry.

They were too cowed and lazy to pay the price: Eternal vigilance.

As I said, the tipping point has come and gone. The tragedy is, no one noticed.

Read the Letters in today's Telegraph, commenting on the ghastly Ian Blair secretly recording his phone conversation with the Attorney General.

Arch. Smug. Scoring a point. Trying to be frightfully distanced and amusing. Absolutely no awareness of the gathering clouds of 800 years of history imploding on the horizon. Just cleverly observed, 'telling' points that are so beyond irrelevant.

Verity, I am off to Malta this week to case the joint a little more just before things get too unbearable. I wonder how it compares with Mexico.

Johnathan - My guess - You will absolutely love Malta! It is beautiful, the Mediterranean is acquamarine, the people are friendly and unchippy, you will get plenty of exercise walking up those awful steep streets, and you can get any kind of food you like. Loads and loads and loads of cafes and restaurants. And they all speak English! I even like their own language. It's a Semitic language and has a pleasant, chipped, dry sound.

Gozo is a 30 minute ferry ride away, and is more rural.

Downside - expensive. Like all islands. Things have to be brought in. Property is also expensive, as on all tiny islands. But once you've bought, you've got an asset on which you will not lose money. There's only so much room for building in such a small place. And as it's now part of the EU, you'll have free, or almost free, medical.

Comparison with Mexico - well, most of the big Mexican cities are pretty old, too. Most of them were founded around the early 1500s, and some of those, like Mexico City, for example, are sited on far older human settlements. Mexico City was the capital of the Aztec empire long before the Spanish turned up, looked around and said, "I like it! Put up some drapes to keep out the afternoon sun, put in some verandas, maybe with arches ... It could work!" So there is a lot of texture to Mexico - but not like Malta and Europe in general.

Also, Malta has the language advantage, and being close enough to Britain to go back for weekends - and proximate to other European capitals. Also, the Maltese keep appointments. Believe me, that alone is worth its price in el dorado!

According to Sir Max Hastings (a man who has made a life's work of looking and sounding like a traditionalist without actually being one - the fake "gentleman" type that Britian produced so many of at one time), Mr Cameron (now back to "David" rather than "Dave") is going to save us all from Blair and co.

Sir Max said as much in the "Daily Mail" (I read the thing in a school library at lunch time).

So Verity and other people who think Britian is in real trouble are wrong, or Sir Max is a dishonest piece of trash.

I know which one of these possibilities I think is more likely.

Paul Marks and others, why have so few people leapt onto the fact that Dave (he'll always be Dave to me, Paul) was positively supine over the non-hounding of Tessa Jowell? He had an opportunity to go in and rip her throat out and Tony Blair's throat out, and instead contemplated his fingernails and lay back and thought of socialist England.

What kind of a leader of the Opposition does not get his compadres circling around the campfire with bright, opportunistic eyes at the smell of government blood? Well ... uh ... the Dave kind, obviously.

Two factors Verity.

Firstly Mr Cameron wishes to be seen as a nice man who is part of the "new politics".

Secondly Mr Cameron does not want financial scandals looked at too closely (at least not at his open demand), after all this is the Mr Cameron who was Mr Green's P.R. man at Carlton television.

"No we are not using shareholder's money to prop up On Digital - and if you print that we are I will have you sacked" (Mr Cameron to various journalists).

Of course Mr Cameron was telling lies (not about the "I will have you sacked" bit, just about the money), many millions of pounds of shareholders money was tossed away on the On Digital venture (which went under anyway).

I wonder if there were any American shareholders - there is that nice new extradition treaty......

OK, Paul Marks. Dave is a sleaze - and fatuous with it. But surely he realises how ineffective he looked when he didn't go in for such an easy kill. If William Hague or Derek Davis had been leader, the truly ghastly Tessa Jowell would have been air-brushed out of the Labour Party by now.

Perry deH (and Peter Hitchens) says that the Conservative Party needs to implode before normal politics can be resumed in Britain, so maybe the presence of the vapid, pointless Dave is part of the natural evolution towards its demise.

Dave can not go for the easy kill Verity - or the government will investigate him (at least that is my guess).

Of course there will still be an official opposition - indeed Dave may become Prime Minister.

However, there is no real opposition.

Both main parties are part of the same thing now.

And there's another website
on it here - especially for good citizens of Manchester Gorton.

Sorry, the link is incorrect. This is the right one.

Link

A curse on you, Geocities!

Haha, He had an opportunity to go in and rip her throat out and Tony Blair's throat out, and instead contemplated his fingernails and lay back and thought of socialist England.