I Needed A Laugh

It’s been a busy few weeks and I’ve become extremely tired with rattling up and down the M5 of late. So, when I saw this my spirits were lifted somewhat. It’s just as well I wasn’t drinking coffee at the time, or my keyboard would need replacing:

I couldn’t have put my views on the danger of the bloggertarians any better myself. Read Polly Toynbee here.

Are we more dangerous or less dangerous, than, say, oh, I don’t know… anthropogenic global warming? The enviroloons seem to think this is going to cause imminent global catastrophe, so perhaps we are as dangerous as this made up phenomenon. What about religious extremism? Are we as dangerous as that? Do we, perhaps, wander around the transport system with bombs strapped to our waists with a cunning plan to blow up illiberal socialists? Perhaps we are as dangerous as an incompetent and corrupt, sleaze-ridden government that is routinely cavalier with peoples’ personal information? Ah, that must be it. Why does the word “fuckwit” float gently across my mind in big pink fluorescent letters?

By the way, for all those who accuse me of hypocrisy (an overused word that doesn’t take severity into account) for being an ideological supporter of ID cards while condemning those who oppose them on ideological grounds.

That’s because it is hypocritical.

The difference between me and them that I was trying to illustrate was that I will go along with the evidence…

The evidence has been before us all along. To suggest that you follow it and that we don’t is so absurd it is laughable. Indeed, I did laugh.

There are no benefits to us with identity cards. It is up to those proposing this illiberal scheme to demonstrate the benefits that they claim. This, so far, they have manifestly failed to do. Unless you count that evil bastard Blunkett making a few bob on the back of it.

Whereas whatever the evidence, opponents will oppose any future ID scheme, no matter what the benefits may be. Now that is pathetic and luddite. That is not abuse, just accurate.