ID cards continue to slide

So ID cards get their crucial second reading this week – another fax to my MP is already on the way. It’s looking like the British public is finally beginning to realise the dangers of this appalling piece of legislation.

70% of British citizens once thought them a good idea, but this was largely due to apathy – ‘Oh, yeah, a little card like that one with your NI number on it’. All were blind to the stuff behind the curtain, the single database that’d provide a one-stop shopping experience for identity theft and the federating of private information that would allow practically any aspect of your life to be recorded, datamined, and assumptions made about you.

For years, whenever someone mentioned ID cards positively I’ve wanted to collectively bang together the heads of all British adults and scream ‘OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES, YOU UNTHINKING COMFORTABLY-NUMB PROLETARIAN WANKERS!’

This second reading, even with Labour rebels voting against, will almost certainly pass – and in a way, that’s good. It means this thing may become Labour’s poll tax, driving them out of office at the next election, and the legislation can then be killed by the next Parliament. I live in hope.