The Lord Chancellor and ID Cards

I really shouldn’t go surfing so early on a Saturday morning, really I shouldn’t. Via The Current Outlook comes this story.

The Lord Chancellor has said ID cards should be made compulsory if introduced in the UK.

Lord Falconer told the BBC that the only way to get full benefit from the scheme was for people without a passport to carry one.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has said the government backs ID cards and fears over civil liberties are “misplaced”.

I see. So despite just about everyone who has stopped for a nanosecond to think through the implications and realised that civil liberties will evaporate under such a scheme, despite just about everyone who is in a position to pass reasoned comment being against, despite only the half-baked boneheads on the government benches and their moronic, sycophantic lapdogs in the higher echelons of the police force coming out in favour of this insidious Stazi-like scheme, Lord bloody bollock-brain Falconer wants to impose them upon us. This numbskull Blairite lickspittle lackey has at least the decency to show us his true colours. He missed his calling by sixty-odd years, though. How dare this contemptuous mountebank patronise us with nonsense that our concerns about civil liberties are “misplaced”. They are not “misplaced”. Every experience with this bunch of fascist miscreants over the past eight years tells us otherwise. We have every reason not to trust them with such sensitive data.

The iniquitous Falconer and the other poltroons in government have consistently failed to engage in debate, have consistently failed to discuss costs and simply spout their disingenuous spin despite all of it being thoroughly discredited. The Lords defeat this week was well deserved. It was the right decision. Falconer and the rest of the dastardly shower that deigns to govern us will still try to push it through despite the portents. Perhaps their arrant recklessness is a good thing; defeat will be more likely to end in a bloodbath. Certainly the thought of that puffed-up conceited, smug, self-important head floating in a sea of blood brings a warm glow to the cockles…

I can only hope that this will be their undoing.

And, yes, I am angry. Normal service will be resumed shortly…