Well, now here’s a surprise:
David Blunkett has taken a job advising a company interested in bidding to run Britain’s controversial identity cards programme, a policy he was the architect of and championed in government.
The vile Blunkett, having orchestrated the perfidious identity card act, now stands to profit from our enslavement.
The former Home Secretary took up the post for the Texas-based security firm Entrust, which specialises in securing digital information and combating identity theft, earlier this month. The firm already provides software for the Spanish national ID card system and has formally registered an interest in the British project.
Well, of course it has.There’s money to be made from human misery. Basher predictably gets a word in on this frankly scandalous appointment:
However, David Davis, the shadow Home secretary, last night attacked the decision, saying: ‘David Blunkett was a staunch champion of ID cards and involved right at the heart of the project. The British public will be rightly sceptical about his involvement with a company that could benefit lucratively from this £20bn scheme.’
Well, quite. If nothing outlines the arrogance and corruption of this administration, Blunkett taking up a position with an identity “management” company does so admirably. Sceptical doesn’t come close. I am angry, although not in the slightest bit surprised by this news. Indeed, only two weeks before starting his new job, he defended the cash cow he has created for himself:
He has described ID cards as ‘not a luxury or a whim – it is a necessity’. Two weeks before he started the job, he wrote in his column for the Sun that ID cards would ‘protect our identity from fraudsters, stop illegal foreigners in their tracks, save billions being leeched from our welfare system and beat organised crime’.
Piffle! It is not a necessity. I know exactly who I am and government has no rights over that identity whatsoever and that principle remains no matter what legislation they pass in parliament. The idea that he is still spouting the tired and clichéd arguments about identity fraud and illegal foreigners sounds like a scratched record. Every one of those points has been thoroughly debunked, time and time again and exposed as the lies that they are. The man is a charlatan and a fraud. The only beneficiary of an identity management scheme is government. He lied then and he lies now; this man would steal our identities for his own grubby profit.
The spokeswoman for Blunkett said: ‘He is not involved in the UK side. His contract excludes him doing work in the UK. It is about advice for overseas work. Obviously he has taken advice from the advisory committee and he’s absolutely going to adhere to the advice.’
Yeah, right, and we can be sure that he will never, ever, give any tiny hint of advice to anyone on the UK process? I’m sorry, I believe nothing that passes Blunkett’s lips. He lied before, why should he not lie now?