Byrne the scoundrel
The Government, in the shape of the woeful Liam Byrne, beaten on every front in the argument for ID cards, make for their last refuge: Patriotism.
The identity card scheme will become a “great British institution” on a par with the railways in the 19th Century, Home Office minister Liam Byrne says.
With nowhere left to run, it’s suddenly, ‘Your National Identity Register needs YOU’.
It’s reasoning that would disgrace the drunkest of pub arguments. I demand, and get, more respect and intellectual rigour from my two children (7 and 3). Why are our leaders the only factor in our lives from whom we accept such intellectual and moral retardation?
I’m quite (but vaguely) fond of the idea of a written constitution for the United Kingdom. But when you see just what these yahoos think constitutes ‘Britishness’, the more I’m sure I don’t want a single one of them anywhere near the drafting process.
Posted on June 21st, 2007 at 10:33 am
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The National ID scheme will probably end up costing more than the railway network in the 19th century while not expanding personal freedom in the way that it did one jot; it will achieve the reverse in fact.
Interesting article about the National ID cards in Iraq, which endanger the lives of the Iraqi citizens who carry them and which describes the necessity of fake ID in that country even among government officials (who, while opposing the use of fake ID by ordinary citizens seem to claim a special right for themselves to use it, because they work for the government!)
…when you see just what these yahoos think constitutes ‘Britishness’, the more I’m sure I don’t want a single one of them anywhere near the drafting process. ~ Justin
Couldn’t agree more, Justin.
In the same way that a terror of the prospect that one of them might get their sweaty paws on an executive presidency modifies my republicanism.
Off topic: but my RSS reader is complaining about your feed. Ran it through the validator and it reports an invalid character in one of the Twitterings. http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://www.chickyog.net/feed/
Why are our leaders the only factor in our lives from whom we accept such intellectual and moral retardation?
Because they’ve got men with guns working for them?
“Why are our leaders the only factor in our lives from whom we accept such intellectual and moral retardation?”
Becuase being a politician has been allowed to be made into a career. Rather than being looked upon as something to be done by those who want to better the country.
When was it not a career?
Neil, sorry about that. Twitter turned out to be a big pile of rubbish and has gummed up the RSS feed. Hopefully all will be sorted when that post drops of the bottom of the feed.