Newmania - may he live for 10,000 years (or longer, actually) - rightly wrapped me on the knuckles yesterday for my credulous claim that Gordo & Co were backing away from ID cards and that this was, I assumed, good news.
He pointed out that they were actually doing no more than reculer pour mieux sauter – in other words putting in place a tactical withdrawal, leaked to Tory papers (of course), that meant only that the presentation had changed, not the goal.
So I take it all back.
Him right. Me wrong. Brief moment of hope dashed.
Gloom re-asserts time-honoured grim, centre-stage role.
About Me
- The Creator
- World-weary to a near-insufferable degree, jaundiced beyond parody and unutterably irritated by the antics of socialists of any hue, The Creator has but a single goal: to shed light where once there was only darkness. If, reasonably, he has no expectation of success, he is still quite looking forward to pissing off as many lefties as possible.
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But yet, you wish to sentence poor Newmania to 10,000 years of life?!
Is it just me, or does 60 - 70 seem about adequate?
Maybe, I am the gloomy one today;-)
We had ID cards before (after WW2) and people hated them and they were scrapped. If this government tries to force people to attend 'interview centres' when they want a passport, well, the Poll Tax riots will seem like a picnic in comparison.
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