Blair Sells Britain Out

Want to see what is likely to be the final nail in Tony Blair's political coffin? Here it is:

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.

The Independent on Sunday can today reveal that ministers have opened talks with private firms to pass on personal details of UK citizens for an initial cost of £750 each.

Amid warnings today that the cost of a card for each adult in Britain is likely to double to £200, union leaders predicted that millions of public-sector workers could refuse to co-operate with the scheme, prompting claims that the ID scheme will become Labour's equivalent of the poll tax.

I truly believe you couldn't get rank-and-file Labour MPs, or the grassroots of the party, or the general populace, to back such a move if you used real bullwhips on them. This does indeed have all the makings of a "poll tax" size argument. For my American readers who may not be familiar with that particular piece of conservative iniquity, here is how it was.

Don't wait for the party conference to make you do it, Tony - leave now.


(And oh, did you notice Tony's son has got a job interning for the US Republicans? Lay in the poodle chow, Congressmen.)