As the house of ID cards crumble, a shadowy figure moves onto the stage
Reid puts up 'Blairite' plan for police reform | Uk News | News | Telegraph
John Reid is to consider plans for directly elected police commissioners as he burnishes his Blairite credentials ahead of a possible bid for the Labour leadership.
John Reid is to consider new plans as he burnishes his Blairite credentials ahead of a possible bid for the Labour leadership
John Reid is said to be prepared to stand for Labour leader as a 'stop Brown candidate'
The policy, strikingly similar to police reform plans announced by David Cameron earlier this year
Is it Blairite or Cameronian? Or isn't there a difference?
Fraud fear as millions of NI numbers are lost | Uk News | News | Telegraph
The Government admitted in a recent parliamentary answer that there are now 76.7 million numbers on the database, well in excess of Britain's adult population of 49 million.
Some of the surplus numbers are legitimate. The DWP estimates that 16.5 million are registered in the names of dead people whose surviving spouses can lawfully claim a pension against their late spouse's NI contributions. Another 1.5 million are thought to belong to pensioners living abroad who can claim UK benefits.
However, a spokesman for the DWP said the remaining nine million had yet to be categorised.....
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said he was alarmed at the admission, primarily because the Home Office intends to use the NI database as the model for setting up Britain's national identity card scheme in 2009.
"The Government cannot know who is in this country and who is entitled to what," he said.
"How can they claim the integrity of their £20 billion ID card database, which will hold dozens of pieces of information on every citizen in the country, will be protected?"
Oh dear, another example of governmental cluelessness, so will John Reid be sharpening his axe and declare himself to be the only hard man capable of running the country by putting the civil service in order? In the immortal words of The Sweet..
Ahh Ahhh, Ahh Ahhh
You better beware, you better take care
You better watch out if you've got long black hair
He'll come from behind, you'll go out of your mind
You better not go, you never know what you'll find
Ahh Ahh, Ahh Ahhh
Don't look into his eyes, you'll be surprised
If don't know what going on behind his disguse
Nobody knows where Reidie goes
He'll steal your job right out from under your nose
Does anyone know the way, did we hear someone say
(We just haven't got a clue what to do)
Does anyone know the way, there's got to be a way
For John Reid
The cops are out, they're running about
Don't know if they'll ever be able to block Gordon out
He's gotta be caught, he's gotta be taught
Cause he is more evil then anyone here ever thought ...
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