Papers please

It looks like Labour's "British jobs for british workers" programme (now where have I heard that slogan before? Ah yes, its one from the BNP) is going to become reason de jour for the ID cards as well. Government officials wondering around demanding that foreign looking people produce work permits, could make their authoritarian tendencies any more obvious?

It won't work of course, but then ID Cards won't work for any of the problems that they have been claimed to cure. The only time that it could work is when everybody has to have a card and has to have them at all times to be produced on demand. Should the country ever end up in that state then that could solve the problem of people wanting to come here, not because of the NIR and ID Cards (they would just be hacked and forged) but because nobody would want to come here.

Not that this is a problem that even needs a solution. If somebody wants to come to this country and work where exactly is the problem? Your average polish worker will have done far more actual good through their work than the people that comprise our political elites. As for Byrne? Perhaps we should introduce him to the historical wonders of the people that he seeks to restrict, such as the Romanians. By slowly impaling him and then leaving the dieing corpse as a message that we are not the governments property to be tagged, and numbered, and catalogued for their convenience. The state is our servant not our master.