The government is to continue with its plan to introduce ID cards.

This is great news for those who look forward to Labour being resoundingly defeated at the next election, and out of office for the next ten years.

The public is becoming increasingly aware of Labour’s attempt to turn Britain into a police state. Brown’s authoritarian approach is worrying more and more people. I suspect it already worries enough people to cause Labour to lose several key marginal seats.

A sensible government, and one that is short of money, might have hastened to drop the ID card scheme. That would have demonstrated finacial responsibility and some respect for peoples privacy.

That path is not The Way of the Gordon. When he is in an hole the Brown instinct is to keep digging.

Keep shovelling, Gordon. You are all set to get kicked out of office without winning an election and marked as a girning idiot.