New Years Eve

Another year ends, another begins. Time for reflection on ones personal achievements in the year nearly past.
Um
Well
Er.
OK enough of that.

Overall a good year for the Tories. Nu-Lab dumped the leader who’d taken them through three election victories and replaced him with a psychopath control freak whose abundant weaknesses are becoming increasingly apparent (shrewd move comrades). Call me Dave has managed to hold the party together while increasing its appeal to the broader public. LibDems continue to elect caretaker leaders.

Overall a bad year for liberty. The Stalinist tendency of NuLab continues to reduce our civil liberties (why do so few people realise just how close to a police state this country has become) using the Magna Carter as toilet paper. Satan continues to persecute motorists in London, seemingly with impunity. Nanny wants us all to suffer restrictions on drinking (and possibly higher prices) because a few idiots get drunk, fight and throw up in the high streets (which has never ever ever happened in the past of course, all those cartoons about gin sodden London in the (?) 18th Century were lies.
WTF. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? I watched Police Camera Road Rage Wars (or something) where two policemen staked out a car because they’d been told that a banned driver might be using his car. OK he was (though how many days stakeout weren’t shown because he didn’t on those days wasn’t revealed), but is this efficient use of police time? If a banned driver is caught in the normal course of events by all means throw the book at him. Put him away for 5 or 10 years just for driving while banned, more if he’s caused an accident and even more if he’s injured someone. If he killed someone make it a life sentence, but don’t waste police time by watching him to see if he might commit a crime. There are enough genuine crimes going unsolved as it is.

Then ID cards; despite proving to everyone’s satisfaction that the government is incapable of keeping secret data secret NuLab continues down this path of folly. What glee will be experienced by the first criminal to crack that particular database, or more likely the first one to find it on a bus next to an M15 dossier marked “Top Secret”? I asked the Home office (e-mail) what extra benefits I would get from having an ID card, unsurprisingly their response failed to provide any.
Anyway, why should I have to “prove” who I am? I know who I am and if some govt orc wants evidence he can fucking well look for it himself. This is all about making life easy for civil servants and the police, not about enhancing the lives and freedoms of Her Majesty’s subjects.

Right, having worked myself into a lather time to lie down in a darkened room with a cool moist towel over my forehead.

Happy New Year.