With the desperately important ID cards vote in the Commons tomorrow Geeklawyer was particularly disappointed to see Gordon Brown regurgitating all the usual discredited nonsense about ID cards: they won’t cost billions, they’ll stop terrorism. And the traditional attempt to assert some vague threat that only ID cards will defeat: “the world has changed”. Which it hasn’t.
Geeklawyer had the forlorn hope that since Brown knew the true costs of ID cards he would lock the scheme in a cellar and allow it to die of starvation. Oh well. Still, it looks like Brown is even more clueless than Blair, based on the Dunfermline by-election drubbing that he organised.
Geeklawyer had the unsettling experience of momentarily hoping that the Conservatives would win the next election. But he is old enough to remember Thatcher and that quickly restored sanity. We’ve had ultra right wing governments in the UK since 1979 so it would be nice to have a change. But he’d be buggered if the Lib-Dems ever got in. Ho ho.
Clearly Geeklawyer is working too hard and drinking too little. Talking of which he’s off to the local Camra real-ale pub which serves a delicious Mead from Scotland the name of which eludes him but which he will discover shortly.
Update: Moniak mead.
The Dunfermline result was a mid-term fluke. Everyone will be back voting Labour at the next general election.
I really need to kidnap you one weekend and take you to the Lurgashall winery for tasty mead goodness.
I think you’d not have too big a struggle bundling me into the boot of a car david