The strange world of Jacqui Smith
We’ve been provided with a new insight into the strange world that Jacqui Smith inhabits today. The National ID Card Scheme will be available to most punters in 2012, but Smith says Joe the Plumber is even keener than that:
I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don’t want to wait that long.
What strange world does Jacqui inhabit where she meets anybody who wants to pay an extra flat-rate tax for the privilege of being deprived of their liberty? Certainly not one inhabited by airport staff, the poor lot who’ve been selected to volunteer as the scheme’s ‘guinea pigs’ - they found the idea insulting. The logic is a bit confusing: they’re already some of the most stringently vetted people in the country, why should they have to go through a lower-level security check and carry another form of identification?
In other related news, someone has nabbed Jacqui’s biometrics, without resorting to Jack Bauer tactics and taking her arm at the same time. Jacqui could take solace in the fact that her ID Card is ‘fakeproof’, making the biometric data useless. She’d be wrong of course, with the ID Card bearing a striking technological resemblance to the biometric passport, but that hasn’t stopped her yet.
