Love and Liberty

Very Junior Minister With Special Responsibility For Paperclips And Being A Nasty Piece of Work Liam Byrne has made a starry-eyed pronouncement about the Labour Government’s second-favourite useless, extortionate, intrusive, unworkable fiasco (obviously, Iraq remains ahead by a long way), claiming that ID Cards and the National Identity Register will become a “great British institution” for the Twenty-First Century.

Alex, from armchair:

“Some of us prefer not to live in institutions.”

Richard, from other armchair:

“Just like workhouses were the great institution of the Nineteenth Century, you great *****.”

Both:

“Ho ho ho ho!”

Perhaps the Government is trying to compensate for randomly releasing so many prisoners by turning the entire country into one huge penal institution?


And, yes, I know I’ve not blogged for ages and ages and have promised articles to many people. I’ve not been well, but, fingers crossed, I’m working on it…

Labels: British Politics, Labour, Meddling In Things That Are Nobody's Business But Your Own, Richard