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Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Wonders of Technology

Of course you remember the ID cards - those ultra-sophisticated, biometrically-coded technological miracles that were going to prevent terrorism, solve crime, reduce immigration, destroy identity fraud, think of the children, facilitate shopping, increase employment and give innocent pleasure to legions of small cuddly animals. Well, here's a thing: as of last week, the Ministry of Snoopery has issued the first of them - to university terror suspects and to those who may cynically have used the sacred institution of marriage as a means to enter the country - but has failed to issue the scanners required to read them. A spokesbeing for the Ministry of Fitness for Purpose (Agent Smith was presumably out somewhere mending a puncture) said that there are as yet no plans to issue scanners to employers, the police, colleges or even hospitals which might collapse tomorrow under the weight of undetected health tourists. Instead, those concerned will have to rely on "visual checks on the card" (or "looking at it", as the procedure used to be known in Oldspeak) and, if suspicion is aroused, on calls to our famously efficient and civilised border agency.

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