Home office vogon spokesman responds to ID card concerns

The Englishman has a link up to an interesting article on ID cards.

The money quote comes from Mr. Richard Thomas, some kind of Information minister:

This is beginning to represent a really significant sea change in the relationship between state and every individual in this country.

It was now clear the scheme was not just about identity cards but about a national identity register.

It is not just about citizens having a piece of plastic to identify themselves.

It's about the amount, the nature of the information held about every citizen and how that's going to be used in a wide range of activities.

Home Office vogon

To learn more about Home Office vogons visit this wikipedia page:

Here's what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: Forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.