"I paid £30 for one of these and I would gladly have paid £75 for the advantages it has given me" is the quote on this BBC web page from a gentleman who thinks his ID card that he went out of his way to apply for is the best thing since sliced bread.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, whether to file his claim in with the "Incubator babies" lies of George Bush Senior or the "Richard Gere Stuck My Gerbil Up His Arse" fantasy press. 

A total of 15,000 of these cards have been issued, at a cost to the british taxpayer of half a bleeding billion pounds. Two hundred and Fifty Million paid up front to developers and software houses to create the Gestapo Industry and it seems another Two Hundred And Sixty Million Will Be Blown In Exit Costs.

So much for WILLIAM HAGUE's promise to cut the scheme of without paying a brass farthing in compensation to the firms DAFT enough to bid for the work.

So who is Mr Kirby then ? A Labour Party Official ? Or a man in need of sectioning under the Mental Health Act ?  

I don't know, but I know that if 15,000 of these things cost half a bloody billin that's a damn sight more than the £30 apiece their owners paid.

Never mind. Maybe some sad bastard might buy them up if we put them on EBAY