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It being the 5th of November, the day when the country celibrates a man for his attempt to blow up parliament, a quick look at what our Lords and Masters are up to at the moment in order that they can justify the massive increase to their already massive pay [H.T. DK]

Despite HMRC recently losing 15000 personal records ID cards are still coming, and of course there is nothing to worry about and our data wil be completely safe. Really. The excuse they are using at the moment is that it will "help control immigration" and will initially only be for foreign nationals. Almost certainly there will be court cases against this on the grounds that it is discriminatory. Which it is. The government will then solve the problem of this discrimination against foreign nationals by forcing everybody to have one, just as they always wanted. Just like the discrimination problem of their internment of foreign nationals was 'solved' by changing it to house arrest against anybody, and like how it was suggested that the discrimination against the innocent people stored on the police DNA database could be 'solved' by placing everybody in the country on it.

Labour wants to force everybody to stay in education until they are 18. Because an extra two years is really going to make a difference, after a decade of schooling left 20% of pupils functionally illiterate. They will still leave at 18 without any qualifications but more embittered and with less experience for having been trapped in school for an extra two years. If they do not attend then they can be taken to court and fined. Of course not being allowed to work because of having to spend most of the day at a school there isn't much chance of their having the money to pay the fine. Forcing those that hate school to stay there for another two years will only increase their loathing of a school system that does nothing for them and their contempt of a toothless justice system until the day comes at 18 when they can leave, still functionally illiterate and without any qualifications ready for a life on the dole. It will however let Labour claim some better unemployment statistics and be able to control where more people are at any time, unfortunately for everybody else they will be at a school they hate making teaching impossible for those that want to learn.

The final example of this governments obsession with monitoring and controlling people is the most extreme. It still wants to, yet again, increase the length of time that people can be held without charge. The amount of time people can be held without charge in the UK is already the longest in Europe and they want to double it to 56 days, up from just 2 days when Labour entered office.