Almost Impossible

And talking of ID cards, I see that Dame Stella Rimington, ex-head of MI5, has let the cat out of the bag. She has made the obvious point that ID cards would "only be of some use if they could be made unforgeable – and all our other documentation is quite easy to forge".

 

Quite. There is no such thing as a totally secure system. Still, that didn’t stop the UK minister for ID cards, Andy Burnham from popping up and dismissing Dame Stella’s observation. And how did he do this? He said: "the system will make it almost impossible to forge an identity". Er, tricky word that "almost", Andy. It actually negates the word "impossible". So in fact, Dame Stella’s right then… Clearly Andy, being the minister in charge of this scheme has to be gung-ho in favour of it, no matter how unworkable and expensive it will become. Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians were prepared to be honest, and recognise and speak the truth? As usual, CuriousHamster puts his finger squarely on the reasons why Andy Burnham is a twit.