Philip Johnston in the
Times has an excellent review of how the Blair government turned Britain into the land of the telescreen and the Thoughtpolice. It also has a quote from Peter Lilley, the former Cabinet minister, about the scheme to introduce ID cards that encapsulates the totalitarian mindset beautifully (emphasis added):
There is no policy that has been hawked, unsold, around Whitehall for longer than identity cards. It was always brought to us as a solution looking for problems.
Read the whole thing, as the kids say.
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