Lib Dems Say ID Cards Aren’t Important?
Do they, really?
The penultimate sentence in a post on the new Times blog, Red Box, on Nick Clegg’s first PMQs as Lib Dem leader, reads:
Iain Dale picks up on this and asks:
Well, I’m not a Lib Dem, but I think I can answer it anyway. Ignoring the fact that this is a media report of an unattributed and non-quoted remark.
Whilst ID cards are undoubtedly an issue - one which Nick Clegg has spoken on quite a bit and even declared that he would take part in a campaign of civil disobedience against them and even go to court. What is being said here by these “Lib Dem strategists” is more that ID cards are not the most pressing issue that most people could come up with.
Yes, it is a very important issue, but for the large majority of non-political active people, it really isn’t there number 1 priority right now. When it comes closer to fruition, then yes it will be an truly important issue for all freedom-loving people in Britain, but right now, more people are likely to be interested in their winter fuel bills.
When it comes down to it, ID cards won’t be the most important issue for the majority of people until the axe is hanging right over their heads. However it is, and will remain, an important one - but just number 1. A simple fact of human nature.
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Nice post- I think you have it in one.