Lying Flip-Flop Spawn Of The Manse ID Card Bastard

Just checking to uncover where the idea of introducing ID cards in the UK came from (ie who are the guilty swine) I find Andrew Sparrow in the Guardian, who seems to reckon Michael Howard first mooted the idea, to be followed by Jack Straw when Labour got into government. This was then taken up with great gusto by the Sheffield Knobhead himself, David Blunkett.

Back in the scuzz-ridden years of the last Tory administration I firmly believed that Michael Howard was the worst Home Secretary in my lifetime. Then we got Jack Straw, who topped Howard. Then we got Blunkett. There seemed no end to the baseness to which each succeeding incumbent could sink. Now we've got Jacqui Smith.

Anyway, back to the bitching.

Later, it appears that Straw did a U-turn, deciding that ID cards were no longer a Good Thing, but a Bad Idea. Oddly enough, the Chancellor at the time, Gordon Brown, was in agreement.

Now he's the (unelected) Boss, Brown is very happy to flip a flop once more and push ahead with ID cards, even though there's no proper debate to speak of. And at the beginning of the year he was blathering about what a Good Thing they would be in an interview in the Guardian with Nicholas Watt.

An interview which ends with the following:

So would it be that British citizens and non-British citizens would need them?

Yes, but under our proposals there is no compulsion for existing British citizens.

No compulsion, eh? Except for workers in airports, etc. The Spawn of the Manse reveals himself to be a flip-flop lying bastard once again.