Slippage
It’d be even funnier if the government were not wasting huge amounts of money on a monumental disaster waiting to happen.
The good news is that “plans to force passport applicants to get an ID card have been dropped”. Did Jacqui Smith take that decision on a voluntary basis, I wonder? I only ask because Labour’s commitment to roll out ID cards “initially on a voluntary basis as people renew their passports” was a real lowlight in knowingly mendacious politics. How satisfying to see it fail to do anything other than highlight just how knowingly mendacious they are prepared to be.
Nevertheless, the government appear to be keen to press on with some ad hoc version of this scheme despite the fact that this half-baked version negates many of the arguments they used to justify its creation in the first place. It’s like watching a not very good and all too predictable farce. A happy ending is highly unlikely.
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March 7, 2008 @ 12:17 am
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