Bastards

[webofevil]

The Tories have done a deal and ID cards will be voted through. God knows what the sweetener was. Maybe ID cards won't be issued to anyone who owns property worth more than £10 million. Maybe anyone who owns a car worth more than £100,000 won't have to obey any UK speed limits. Maybe, in the final analysis, they're just

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[chiller.livejournal.com]

I actually feel miserable about this.

[nudejournal.livejournal.com]

Fucking retards. The compromise being that only the most objectionable bit will be mandatory for a while! Brilliant!

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Dickheads. Bet they can't force me to get one - unless my country's government gives in to them. And since I reckon that at least 5% and up to 10% of the UK population is eligible for/already has an Irish passport, it could all get rather interesting.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

Isn't this actually a bit of a victory for the Lib Dems? Their compromise was designed to make ID cards voluntary until after the next election - so that they would be a central issue in the election campaign of 2009 or 2010. As the compromise is mooted to be that the cards will indeed be voluntary until 2010, they've got their way. Haven't they?

Oh and BTW. The Tories? Unprincipled? Craven? C#nts? Surely not.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> the cards will indeed be voluntary until 2010

Yeah, voluntary like a passport.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

I thought this distinction was at the centre of the compromise, or at least the one I've read about.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

The BBC have details here. Apparently, your details will go on the database when you register for a passport, but the cards are voluntary until 2010.

Interestingly, unlike most of the people I know who are fervently anti, the Tories seem more bothered about the actual card than the database.

[smileyfish.livejournal.com]

Fuckers! (hi)

On a completely different tangent, I thought this little black-eyes peas ditty would amuse you: http://www.krypticdj.com/music/mashup.mp3

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Hi - I'm a friend of verlaine's. I note that you say in your userinfo that you don't reveal what you do for the UK Parliament, but I've just been offered a job doing the same thing and am not sure whether to take it or not - any chance you could tell me a bit more about what it's like to help me make up my mind?

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Sorry, only just seen this. I find it interesting, entertaining, engaging, sometimes infuriating. That's in the Lords; the job is harder in Commons Committee (which is where I'm guessing you've been offered the job), because - going against all accepted cliché - they tend to talk more nonsense there. Whether you'd enjoy it partly depends on what you're used to. strictlytrue should be able to give you a measured and balanced picture of what it 's like to work there, as that's his stamping ground.