Labour: Hitting the Bar and Moving the Goalposts

It is still hilarious, a couple of weeks later, Meg Hillier's argument that ID cards would be good for young people "going to bars". Identity cards are the zenith of the Labour Party's scheme to infringe, absolutely, upon our civil liberties and this latest sales-pitch proves how bad the ID bargain is for citizens.

Ms Hillier's argument about ID cards making it easier for eighteen year olds to buy drink is telling because it tacitly admits that the government's original apology for identity cards - that they will improve security against terrorism - is specious and hollow.

So hollow, in fact, that all they can do now is to appeal to nineteen year olds that they will be admitted to drink at the Stoat & Carburettor without interrogation from the publican.

That is, if Labour's mismanagement of the economy hasn't forced all the pubs to close by the time ID cards are introduced nationally...