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This is glorious. You know how all those state-fetishists who are forever telling us how much more conveinent life would be if we carried an ID card, to make more palatable their wish for us all to conform to their rules...
Identity Minister Meg Hillier was left red-faced in Liverpool as she
arrived at a photocall to promote identity cards - but left her own at
home.She travelled to the city to announce a further roll-out of the controversial identity cards across the North West.
The
former journalist and mother patted herself down and checked her
handbag for the missing card before putting the slip-up down to the
demands of looking after her baby.
She then posed in front of the city’s landmark Liver Buildings alongside the vast River Mersey without her card.
At a stroke she has kyboshed the idea that ID cards make life more convenient. Even the minister couldn't remember to put hers in her handbag.
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