Jacquie Smith our wonderful Home Secretary was recently interviewed by the New Statesman. Apparently she says she’s no liberal, no shit. Actually she is in here own words, “a home secretary that is trying to make a difference to peoples feeling o security and enabling them to get on with their lives” at least that what she’s attempting.

This is a wonderful position to take, justifying anything as long as it has a popular mandate. The phrase “the greatest good for the greatest number comes to mind” something that Liberals played with in the early 20th century I believe and then abandoned precisely because it justified anything.

I assume my (and many other peoples feeling) that they are not safer with ID cards would be grounds for a opt out. Smith runs that to ground apparently what we need is, “a system which nationally, can ties people’s identity to a record of who they are.” Great my identity which I had always assumed was subjective to me is actually going to be recorded and defined by Jacquie. My political views a large part of my identity is the government going to record them, they could certainly track my movements to and from campaigns and conferences. Is it wisely going to inform me whether I am a Orange Booker or not? The central government can very easily find out who I am, I have a NI number, a passport if they actually need more I’m sure Google and Tesco’s along with most large companies can give it to them. The government doesn’t need to track my identity that’s mine thank you very much. Perhaps everywhere Jacqui goes she should be treated a druggie post the mistake at uni. She might find out them exactly how bad been tied to an identity is.

Well I believe that this is my first anti labour blog why? Well on large Brown has so far been so inoffensive. But this is precisely the problem Smith doesn’t show any opinion against our civil rights etc but she shows a completely lazy indifferent view to them, the view we should do anything necessary for security set a dangerous precedent.

It reminds us then the clear difference between Labour and the Lib Dems, it also reminds us why we need to be permanently aware of our civil rights, and we shouldn’t trust those in power to have the same reading of them, as with Smith or worse care about them at all.