ID cards ’should be compulsory’
The Lord Chancellor has said ID cards should be made compulsory if introduced in the UK.
Excuse me, can I have a bin please? I need to vomit.
This scheme is quite plainly and patently doomed. Even totalitarian Brighton-based über-loyalist Neil Harding seems to think so. Which just shows how stupid, unwanted and offensive an idea they really are. Harding has tried to defend some pretty awful things in the past but even he can’t now support the Government on this.
As it happens, I listened to all this week’s Any Questions? (which can be listened to online here until next Wednesday evening; the transcript will be available on a Monday for about six weeks after publication) and what the BBC News website fails to mention - quelle surprise - is that Jonathan Dimbleby asked for a show of hands on the programme and approximately 90% of the audience were against an ID card and NIR scheme whether it was compulsory or not. Funnily enough, several of these votes have taken place on the programme in the past and they’ve all come to the same conclusion: a large majority against. Führer Falconer had the gall to argue with Dimbleby whether 90% warranted the defeat being labelled ‘overwhelming’!
It’s worth adding that the most recent proper poll (i.e. not one cooked up by our erstwhile friends at the Home Office) conducted a month or two back showed a slight majority against their introduction.
