Tim Worstall

It is all obvious or trivial except…

 

 

Quite

October 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Gordon Brown’s claims that a national ID card scheme would help prevent terrorist attacks are "absolute bunkum" according to a senior Government security adviser. Harvey Mattinson, a consultant at the information technology arm of GCHQ, said that the only real value of identity cards would be to help state bodies share information about people.

Nothing we don’t already know…..but when will the Prime Mentalist admit it?

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  • 1 Kay Tie // Oct 30, 2008 at 10:14 am

    “when will hte Prime Mentalist admit it?”

    About the same time he admits that he was wrong about “ending boom and bust”.

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