Death knell for ID cards

Wednesday, 01 July 2009 06:52

Finally a bit of common sense as the new Home Secretary Alan Johnson announces that ID cards will not be compulsory.

Why has this ridiculous waste of money not been scrapped? - because it's one of Gordon Brown's pet ideas. Somehow he has the wild imagining that forcing the British people to carry ID cards will make them safer. This is totally absurd. All it will do is allow the police and other petty officials to demand to see ID more and more.

We are already plagued by demands for ID from banks, building societies etc on the grounds of 'money laundering', what is really going on is that information is being gathered to make tax evasion more difficult and keep an eye on every citizen. It is nothing to do with stopping so-called 'organized crime'. This is a convenient bogey to roll out whenever an unacceptable bit of legislation is being forced through parliament.

Now look out for more devious intrusion into your life in the form of biometric passports. The only reason the government is keen on these is that the US has decided that it wants them. We as a nation should stand up and say NO! firmly and loudly. If that means that the US will not accept our passports then we should offer the option of two differenet passports, with different price tags of them.

People wanting to visit the US could easily have a passport update to include the fingerprints. You can bet your life that the police and uncle Tom Cobbley and all will soon have access to your fingerprints. These will be scanned on a daily basis without your knowledge or consent.

We should not be required to give our fingerprints or other body information like DNA unless we are convicted of a criminal offence.

Vegetarians in contol of meat production - pure lunacy or contempt?

Tuesday, 30 June 2009 07:10

When Gordon Brown appointed vegetarians to run agriculture and farming was he trying to tell farmers of the contempt in which he holds them, or trying to make sure that life became as difficult as possible for them and the whole meat industry?

Hilary Benn, MP for Leeds Central and Secretary of State, plus Poplar & Canning Town's Jim Fitzpatrick are both vegetarians. These people can not seriously do a job where they are in direct control of something they don't want to happen - ie meat production.

Dan Norris has recently joined them, MP for North East Somerset Dan Norris has a website that is loaded with anti-hunt propaganda. On his website he points out that David Cameron would repeal the ban on hunting, the impression is that Dan Norris is fiercy anti-hunting.

With a team headed by two vegetarians and an anti-hunting person what message is being sent to the farming community?

It is unlikely that any progress of farming will be made when vegetarian townies are in charge.