The final reading of the ID Cards bill passed with a majority of 25 yesterday. Mr. Nosemonkey as well as Andrew and John are more than a tad aggrieved at the number of Conservative MPs who didn’t bother turning up to vote against this nasty piece of authoritarian legislation.
What surprised me more were the Labour MPs who were absent. Dennis Skinner, Austin Mitchell, Frank Cook – all vehemently against ID cards, and not exactly afraid to rebel – as well as seventeen other Labour MPs of varying degrees of insipidness. Adding in the twelve Conservatives (the party that stands up for individuals’ rights) that didn’t bother to show up, that majority could have been down to single figures or even (in my happy, imaginary world) defeated.
My slimy, careerist MP voted “aye”, of course, but she’s going to lose her seat at the next election thanks to boundary changes. And it couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
German Phrase For Today: “Nutzlos” - Ann Widdecombe
Song playing as this was published: Suede - “Beautiful Ones”
All politians are worthless bastards - even the nice ones
Haddock: John at the England Project wrote to his Conservative MP (Peter Lilley) whose been consistently against the things asking him why he couldn’t be arsed to turn up and got a reply that he’d liked to have been there, but missed it because he was having dinner. FFS!
And as for our glorious Prime Minister, not only is he a politician, he’s also a lawyer. Now if that isn’t a dodgy combination, I don’t know what is?