(Geddit? More on – “Moron”? God, I crack me up…)<\/p>\n
Following yesterday’s post<\/a>, there have been a few more responses to the government’s attempts to peer into every aspect of our lives. This will, after all, be dragging on for ages…<\/p>\n DoctorVee reckons I’ve lost all sense of proportion and got a few things wrong<\/a>, while The Yorkshire Ranter confirms my suspicions that I don’t<\/a> in a piece that looks into the practicalities of the things a bit more.<\/p>\n In the real world, Labour are soaring ahead in the polls despite (because of?) all this<\/a> – although Dead Men Left notes that poll support for ID cards is misleading; stripped of its “war on terror” rhetoric, and with the cost of the scheme laid out, it disappears entirely<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, to keep loyalists onside<\/a>, the rumours start that the Tories may drop their support for ID cards after the election<\/a> – Guido notes that nearly half the parliamentary Conservative party abstained<\/a>… Our own blogging Tory, Boris, was one of those who had more pressing engagements – he promises an explanation on Thursday<\/a>. And during the confusion, UKIP again try to gain more Tory votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Where next? Well, if it carries on like this, somewhere warm and sunny overseas is sounding increasingly appealing… As for the kerfuffle over ID – God alone knows. Although I’m increasingly beginning to suspect that the government is suggesting the worst so that we’ll all be massively relieved when these things are finally introduced in a watered-down version.<\/p>\n And for those who aren’t convinced by any of the anti-ID arguments, my main problem with the thing is that I know how crap I am at remembering things. I’ve lost ten cigarette lighters in the last two months – those only cost 50p to replace; no matter how much ID cards will be, I know I’ll be losing the bloody things all the time and object to the introduction of what is – for me – effectively a tax on the absent-minded.<\/p>\n The fact that the government will have a handy database of most of the contents of that mind, as well as the ability to retrace my steps for me to discover the last time I used the thing, just freaks me out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Geddit? More on – “Moron”? God, I crack me up…) Following yesterday’s post, there have been a few more responses to the government’s attempts to peer into every aspect of our lives. This will, after all, be dragging on for … Continue reading