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By the way, its very cynical of Blair to use the fact that the ID card scheme was promised in the Labour party election manifesto as a reason to brush aside all opposition to it, because that document was 102 pages long and contained dozens of policies, many of which they won't enact. Labour has failed to pass plenty of other policies, like electoral reform, that had been promised in previous election manifestos. Also no Labour MP that I have heard speak on this subject has said that any potential Labour voter they spoke to while they were canvassing for support before the election had expressed a desire to have national ID cards introduced.

Finally, when Blair says: "we are the democratically elected government", he fails to point out that in England more people voted for the Conservative party than voted for Labour and they only won because our skewed constituency boundaries gave him a majority among English MPs. In fact, across the whole UK, Labour was "democratically elected" on just 21.6% of the eligible vote! Hardly a ringing endorsement of their policies, or a mandate for major constitutional change.