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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Hoon warns Lords not to oppose ID Cards

The Right Dishonourable Geoff Hoon, leader of the House of Commons, has warned the House of Lords not to keep opposing ID Cards.

In a deliberately misleading statement Hoon said that ID Cards were part of the Labour Stazi manifesto and convention says that the Lords do not oppose a manifesto policy. What he fails to mention is the fact that their manifesto said they would be voluntary and forcing anyone who applies for a new passport form 2008 to submit their biometric data and personal details to the national ID register so that it can be sold on to private companies is not voluntary.

Hoon, along with the rest of the lying, dishonest, two-faced tossers on the front benches, knows perfectly well that the public are opposed to the ID register and opposed to compulsary ID cards.

The bill is now coming before the Lords for the fourth time in one session of parliament which means that the British government are now able to use the Parliament Act to force the law through without the consent of the Lords and there is little doubt that this is what will now happen.

Hoon has told the Lords that the Commons are the elected house and that they should not be opposed on this. I wonder if he has stopped to think why the Lords are making such an issue of this? Perhaps he thinks that they are just being difficult, flexing their muscle. It probably hasn't occured to him that the Lords are doing what is right - respecting and standing up for the wishes of the people in this country and opposing dangerous, invasive, undemocratic policies from the clowns in the Commons.

When will they listen? WE DON'T WANT ID CARDS! Give it up, get over it, move on. You've got another couple of years before your suitcases are dumped unceremoniously on the pavement outside Downing Street and you're all out of a job so rather than mark your departure with shitty legislation that is probably going to be repealed once you've lost the next election, why not do something that the people want and save us all a large wedge of our taxes? You are, after all, public servants.