Big Jacqui's Just Looking Out For You

All Home Secretaries are ghastly, of course. But Jacqui Smith may be an even greater nuisance than previous holders of the office. That's tough competition when you recall that the field also includes Michael Howard, David Blunkett and Jack Straw. The latter, of course, shopped his own son to the police. But here's the lie being peddled by the gruesome Smith today:

Jacqui Smith says public demand means people will be able to pre-register for an ID card within the next few months.

The cards will be available for all from 2012 but she said: "I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long."

Does anyone believe this? The sooner there's an election the better.

Comments

[Anthony]

I don't believe it for an instant. She was being interviewed last week and you'd think to listen to her that people were swarming her in the street like Victorian urchins, begging to be allowed to get their sticky little hands on their biometric ID.

I just don't believe it. It's bollocks. Entirely characteristic bollocks, which makes it all the more irritating.*

*Labour ministers seem to have a tendency to come out with these patently false anecdotes regarding the public mood for some reason. I remember Keith Vaz spending several months touring the nation in a bus and then at the end of it claiming that he hadn't encountered a single Eurosceptic and that the public's message was that the government should be steaming ahead to Euro membership at full speed. I don't move in notably parochial (or even Tory) circles, but at the time I knew precisely two people who favoured Euro membership and one of those was for it only because he considered it grimly inevitable.

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