Parliamentary Bulldozing

[Jamez]

And a terrorist could easily hijack a plane on its way to Britain from a foreign country and slam it into the houses of parliament, or even better, 10 Downing Street.

(Confusing reference alert)

Only if they put Simon Woodroffe in charge of air traffic control!

Have you seen how ropey ATC is in this country?

It would be ridiculously easy to cause sheer panic at Swanage and take ATC offline.

[Aston]

In principal, I back the Parliament Act. For all it's faults, the present government was legitimately elected by the people of this country (even if technically it was appointed by the crown)

I believe technically we are "subjects", not people, Chris

[malcyb]

So if ID Cards are obviously not going to achieve what they are supposed to then why on earth is the government obsessed with driving them through?

[Nick Harvey]

So if ID Cards are obviously not going to achieve what they are supposed to then why on earth is the government obsessed with driving them through?

Easy.

So every fox can have his biometric details stored on a chip on a card, which he hands to the hound just prior to having his head bitten off.

You've got to know which fox has been phuqued, after all.

It's a requirement of the Department for the Elimination of Farming and Rural Affairs.