Why Won't They Let it Lie??

ID cards. Why? Why? Why can't they just give them up? Are their ego's that large? Do they think we are that stupid? Ms Smith, the home secretary, thinks that if our details are saved in different places they will be more secure. How? Will this not just mean there are more places for our details to go missing from? They will be compulsory for foreign nationals from outside the U.K. Does this mean all the illegal one's that the card is supposed to protect against, will be lining up to give themselves up? I can see the market for fake cards doing a brisk business, and it is just what our over burdened police force needs, more paper work to fill out for stop and searches. Security sensitive employees, such as airport staff, will also be forced to carry one. Why? The lack of airplanes exploding in mid-air indicates to me that the current procedures appear to be working rather well. She even dug out the old chestnut about it protecting us from rabid terrorists. The Madrid train bombers were all in possession of valid Spanish ID cards, and the London tube bombers would have all been entitled to any identity card that the government would have introduced as well. So will someone please explain to me how it will help curb this supposedly immanent threat? Then there is the cost. Ms Smith says the new measures will cut a billion pounds off the original pricing for such a scheme, but did not then mention what it would cost, or how it will be paid for, and how much we will be charged for carrying this stupid little card. No one, she says, will be forced to have one, so when no one stumps up any moola for it what will she do? Lastly, in the next year or so, a voluntary scheme for all students is to be rolled out. Hopefully when the take up is so pitifully low they will finally drive a stake through the ID databases heart. Even better though, by the time their timetable for a national roll out comes around, they will all be down the DHSS, dodging the chav underclass like the rest of us.

Stop The Nonsense