Clarkey, Clarkey, Clarkey…
*Tut tut* You are a deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous pile of crap, aren’t you?[1]
Let’s examine a little of your fourteen page tirade agains Simon Carr in The Independent yesterday, and let’s compare this with what we already know to be true (or false) and with some interesting information that’s come to light today, shall we?
You assert:
Those…who suggest that Labout is steadily turning British democracy into a dictatorial power are guilty of a particularly permicious untruth.
Have you seen some of the fundamental rights that you’ve recently criminalised/legislated against? Are you aware of the information that you want to hold on us, the British public, in your NID? Do you know about the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill you’re trying to force through Parliament to give you, the Home Secretary, the power to make or change any law you like, as you see fit, without having to go through Parliament? Did you hear that it’s now illegal to protest within 1km of Parliament? Did you know that we can be held for up to 28 days (not the 90 you wanted) on just the suspicion of a crime?
And I particularly like this one:
The National Identity Register may be used to record every sort of personal information — such as…applying for a fishing licence. Wholly untrue, I am glad to report.
No! Check your Bill. Section 4 of Schedule 1 (4)(l) states the number of any designated document which is held by him and is a document the number of which does not fall within any of the preceding sub-paragraphs;
It clearly states that you can associate any document that isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Bill with the entry in the NID.
You’ve also made mention that one of the points of the ID card/NID is to prevent voting fraud. While this is, I contend, simply a ruse concerning postal votes to create yet more paranoia about not having the NID, so you yourself have already confirmed the voting
[omitted] item in the aforementioned list. Therefore, it is not wholly untrue
, is it?
The National Identity Scheme is being introduced to safeguard people’s identities…the information that can be hold on the register covers only basic personal information roughly the same…as a passport.
Lies. You also want to store current and previous places of residence, fingerprints, biometric data, NI number, driving licence, and a whole lot more. While this may be the same information as required for a passport, it is a passport of the future, not of the now as you imply. This should have been clarified and made obvious, but then clarity and honesty don’t seem to be part of the Home Office’s repertoire.
And let me conclude with Varr’s most ridiculous statement:
The presumption of innocence is no longer a fixed legal principle.This is complete nonsense…
Yes. Is suppose it is. Unless we want to talk about your lovely ASBOs, whereby an order can be made, without a conviction, that can be turned into the equivalent of house arrest. Yes, let’s forget about those for a moment; they’re very inconvenient for your diatribe.
Finally you close with the sentence:
Ordinary people also have the right to be protected.
Well said. Until…
…you have the bollocks to stand up and bleat on and on about how we, the law-abiding majority of the UK populace, should thank you for standing up for our human rights, for protecting us from the bad elements of society, and then it comes out that you’ve knowingly released over 1,000 foreign nationals (many of them here illegally in the first place) from prison without deporting them back to their country of origin, in some cases contrary to court recommendations of exactly that! And you’ve known about this for what: six years I seem to recall you saying on the news this evening?
Well, thank you, Clarkey. You’ve probably, single-handedly, just boosted the BNP’s cause by about 10 additional points (when compared to the results of the recently taken YouGov/Sky News poll).
Yes, it’s all your fault. Step down. You’re not doing a good job.
[1] This is rhetorial.
While I’m at it:
Here’s another idea for you Clarkey: take your unwanted ID cards, fold them until they are all sharp corners, then shove them where the sun doesn’t shine. Seeing as we all want one it shouldn’t hurt too much, should it?
Have you resigned yet?
Oh, and this is hilarious (yet strangely true)! I don’t know why they missed you out. Maybe because they we’re expecting your predecessors early retirement from the post. I guess they won’t have forseen yours either.