First they tell us there will be a national ID card, then they tell us there won't be.
Either way,
we have no say
we're in the sway
of our lords and masters.
Let us pray...
Is this the guy who told us we need them and will want them and that he never scrapped them?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jul/02/identity-cards-fraud-cost
"grim satisfaction"
Grim? Yes. Satisfaction? No: my personal opinion.
That mere voluntary receipt of an ID card is reported as a significant political development just goes to show the distance between any idea of personal liberty for British subjects and the U-bend down which it has long since been flushed.
Reading the Telegraph every day must be like going on a diet of aftershave.
I for one welcome our new overlords, and look forward to that golden day when on the steps of No 10, one of NuLab's jolly, affable replacements for Kim Il McBroon will wave his voluntary ID card at us like... like a certain Mr Chamberlain and that famous piece of paper.
Well, i think Britain is leading the way in the open society stakes! You not only know who the head of your 'Secret' Services are, but where to find them on Holidays! It must be true- honest people have nothing to hide!
As pointed out elsewhere, Labour are clearing the decks of troublesome policy issues in advance of the election.
While the abandonment of compulsory ID cards is to be welcomed, we obviously have to exercise caution in trusting a word these fkers say, especially in proximity to an election.
But just have a look at the comments on the Johnson Guardian article quoted above (and posted about here also) - there is no way ID cards have legs in the current climate - and people (well the internet commentariat at least) seem to be well aware that the real danger is from the database and the general aggregation of personal data on us by the state. These are reasons to be guardedly positive.
As pointed out elsewhere, Labour are clearing the decks of troublesome policy issues in advance of the election.
While the abandonment of compulsory ID cards is to be welcomed, we obviously have to exercise caution in trusting a word these fkers say, especially in proximity to an election.
But just have a look at the comments on the Johnson Guardian article quoted above (and posted about here also) - there is no way ID cards have legs in the current climate - and people (well the internet commentariat at least) seem to be well aware that the real danger is from the database and the general aggregation of personal data on us by the state. These are reasons to be guardedly positive.