When isn't it wrong to kick a blind man up the arse and steal his dog

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When they're David Blunkett.

Once again the best Tory Home secretary there has ever been surfaces with his crackpot ID card scheme, which the home office isn't even giving the beard of a name, entitlement cards, any more, at least not internally. Part of an ongoing campaign to look tough on Asylum seekers in the eyes of the pernicious petty fascist elements in the press. A segement of the media that has made asylum seeker sysnomymous with illegal immigrant and baby eating, white slave trading, drug pushing criminals.

As you can see I'm pretty insensed by this particularly as the consultation process appears to have been completely ignored.

(PS: if anyone brings up the argument, 'if you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to fear', I will personally seek you out and remove whichever body part you hold most dear and feed it to David Blunkett's dog).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh come on Ed. If you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to fear.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

~~ahhahahah nice work Ed~~ Yes that was bad

― james (james), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i didnt read the question - when?

I would say when he cuts you up on the M25

― james (james), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

When isn't it wrong to kick a blind man up the arse and steal his dog
C'mon, now! Don't be ridiculous. It is never inappropriate to kick a blind man.

― ric, Friday, 23 May 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm afraid I'm to dumm to notice what's so bad about ID cards.

And yes, blind people are the root of all evil, especially little ones.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

blind people are the root of all evil, especially little ones.
No, it's the love of little blind people that is the root of all evil.

― ric, Friday, 23 May 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Chiefly because in britain we have no gaurantor of of our fundamental rights as citizens (not that we are of course we are subjects). Any erosion of our rights as assumed has to be resisted because it is a grave slippery slope. Furthermore ID cards will almost inevitably be used as a way to persecute brown people in this country, (as stop an search already is).

I doubt an ID card would affect me particularly but there are plenty of sections of society where it will become a part of everyday life and it will just open new avenues for harrassment by the authorities.

I'm not prepared to give up any of my liberties untill someone is prepared to tell me what they are and gaurantee them in law.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

another card to carry! Big deal! Bring it on! It'll be a nice addition to my collection...library card, credit card, staff discount card, Nectar card.....

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Carrying an ID book is useful Ed because then you have a convenient place to list your firearm licences.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ANd how you voted on Big Brother.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 May 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't even spell "guarantee"!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 23 May 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, it's just a bit surprising.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 23 May 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The annoying thing about this is that the government likes to keep saying that 2,000 people have written to them, and two thirds of those were saying what a great idea ID cards are.

However, about 5,000 people wrote to the government saying that it's a bad idea. Because they all did so via a website, though, the government seems to be either ignoring them or claiming that they count as a single petition.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 23 May 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't blame them, in a way. Clicking on a website is a lot easier than actually writing and sending a letter. I've signed etc a LOT of web-based things along these lines, and I've never felt like they'd make much difference, sadly.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 23 May 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It was far more than just clicking on a website. I and many others made quite substantial submissions via the web, If you like I can dig mine out.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I would strongly suggest printing out what you wrote and mailing it.

(Haha this issue is so serious I completely skipped making the lurid double-entendre on Ed's last post! Whoops.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

have you heard the rumours about the dog?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

What, about the dog making a snuffling beeline for the crotches of whomsoever Blunkett is speaking to?

I was at coffee with Mark S today and mentioned the best thing about being David Blunkett must surely be never seeing the people flicking v's at you.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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