Faced with overcrowded prisons and security issues for electronic tagging, New Labour, having decided that things like building more prisons or meting out proper punishment are too much like hard work, is now considering implanting prisoners with microchips as if they were so many dogs.
"Dog" is the proper metaphor here, because it is only by taking such an attitude that a government would consider doing such a thing to anyone who is other than an animal or slave. And given the way New Labour has approached an organ donor shortage by introducing organ confiscation, it won't be long before the "advantages" of such a system will be offered to the public in a Hobson's choice of "volunteer or we'll force you."
Just remember as you roll up your sleeve: It's for your own good.
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