Fingerprints Dropped

One of the planks of the New Labour “gold standard” identity management scheme was the much touted biometrics. It was going to be all-singing, all-dancing fingerprints and iris scans, along with facial recognition. At the time that Big Blunkett was touting this stuff from his usual position of arrogance peppered with ignorance, those who had a modicum of understanding of the subject were, quite rightly, pointing our that he was talking bollocks – so, no change there, then.

About a year ago, iris scans were quietly dropped. This, on top of the decision to use Chip n PIN, a faux “secure system” that isn’t.

Now, today, they finally admit that fingerprints aren’t such a good idea either.

The future of the UK’s identity card scheme was thrown into further confusion last night after it emerged that the Home Office is looking to scrap one of its key components – a national register of fingerprints.

I do apologise if my glee is obvious, but these disingenuous bastards deserve to see their flagship; full of cannonball holes, listing badly with the rigging falling about their ears; slip serenely, unmissed, unwanted and unloved beneath the cold grey waves.

They were told, time and time again, but they knew best – in their arrogance, they presumed that they were the ones, incompetent, fraudulent liars that they are, to manage our identities. Frankly, I would sooner trust the Mafia to manage my identity. They, at least, wouldn’t claim that it was all for my benefit.

Successive Home Office ministers have said fingerprinting will be a vital weapon in combating identity fraud and terrorism.

So they did, with not one jot of evidence to substantiate their exaggerated and absurd claims – and every one of them lied. Every one of them touted “biometrics” as if they are, somehow, a holy grail, and every one of them was wrong.

Then there was the nonsense put about by Alastair Darling in the wake of the lost data disks last autumn.

“The key thing with ID cards is that information is protected by personal biometric information,” said Darling. “The problem is we do not have that protection [on the lost HMRC information]. ID cards match up biometric information with information held — there would be a biometric lock with the ID cards system.”

Thus confirming beyond all doubt that he is an idiot – a lying, disingenuous idiot, who has not the faintest idea about that which he talks – so, no change there, then.

Yes, I’m enjoying the sight of HMS ID Cards wallowing, holed beneath the waterline, as the venal, mendacious poltroons who launched and sailed her try vainly to make her appear watertight. May every politician be so visited by the lies and fraud they perpetuate in such graphic fashion. May they sink without trace and may their eyeballs and private parts be nibbled by the denizens of the deep as they scream silently in agony for the harm they have done us.