ID Cards: scum to get them first
This change of strategy on ID cards by the government might be a winner, I’m sorry and worried to say. The plan is for a phased introduction starting with three of the most hated groups of people in Britain: bloody foreigners, bloody students and bloody airport baggage handlers.
It’s perfect. When the scheme turns out to be the unmitigated carnage all right-thinking people believe it’s going to be, well, who cares. It was only bloody foreigners, bloody students and bloody airport baggage handlers whose lives were ruined. Go back to sleep Britain. Walk on by.
The only way to improve this plan would be to include Members of Parliament and nonces.
Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 11:32am under ID cards
And the chavs. Don’t forget the chavs.
BBC2 wants us to care about the chavs, so that can’t happen.
Makes a change from trying it out on the bloody Scots.
Scottish baggage handlers will be included too, which presumably means tabloid hero terrorist-thumper John Smeaton will be forced into line. Nice way to repay him. Here’s your medal and ID card, son, now don’t give us any backchat. I wonder if anyone’s asked him his opinion.
I like the implied suggestion from Wor Jacqui that baggage handlers are so untrustworthy that to keep us safe we need to spend billions fingerprinting the buggers. Good thing they aren’t in charge of anything sensitve like, er, loading bags onto aeroplanes, or anything.
If there is hope,it lies in the chavs.
You forgot benefit “scroungers” and those “malingering” on Incapacity Benefit, Jus. They will need an ID card to keep receiving benefits and access healthcare.
Nothing Labour like more than kicking a cripple when he’s down.
Of course, if the NUS decide not to play ball…
“We would also be concerned for the safety of students’ personal information if they were coerced into entering the ID card system in this way.”
No surprises here, then.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/31/ippr_irregular_migration
Grim, innit?
Jase, don’t know if you’ve caught up with this one before, but I do like it: http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comments/facebook_the_cia_and_you/
About a third and halfway down this page under the headline “High-Tech Stupid” is the neatest dismissal of any claims for identity cards (or any other method of data-mining) in TWAT that I’ve come across. No offence.
Put simply, a database containing your activities and preferences may help to predict what vodka you’ll buy, but will be completly incapable of determining whether you’ll add a flaming rag to your tipple.
Strangely, I stumbled across it when trying to look up the alleged link between Facebook and the CIA, but that’s another paranoid story…
Doug – these might be the droids you’re looking for?
You missed out binge-drinkers!