All the Difference

The shadow Minister for Snoopery, Chris Graybeing, has written to the five biggest market forces leeching taxpayers' money into the identity-card scheme, informing them that the Daveybloke administration will not undertake further contracts. However, the Daveybloke administration will continue with the present Ministry of Snoopery's plans to set up the biometric database which is, after all, merely the main problem with the whole idea. Anyone unfortunate enough to require a passport, and financially insecure enough to regard the law as legally binding rather than as a matter of personal choice, will be subject to exactly the same economical yet sophisticated safeguards that have made the present government's reputation in the field of data protection. So when the best police force in the world kicks in your door at three in the morning because of a computer error, or when you find youself unemployable because your name has been put on a corporate blacklist, you'll be able to thank your stars and Daveybloke the Cuddly Nationalist that you don't live in Germany.