Perhaps this item could be seen as another example of what would seem to show the incompetence of this government.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson has (apparantly) dropped plans to make ID cards compulsory for pilots and airside workers at Manchester and London City airports.

Mr Johnson said the ID card scheme was still very much alive and a national roll-out of a voluntary scheme was being speeded-up – with London to get them a year early in 2010 and over-75s to get free cards.

But with the exception of foreign workers in the UK, the ID card scheme was going to become a voluntary scheme.

The government have spent millions of pounds on ID cards. The infrastructure for the use of the cards was going to be huge. For example all the businesses, shops, banks etc were gearing up to using ID cards to confirm identities on shop purchases and financial transactions etc.

Now this has gone out the window. Why? I don’t know. The recession is not an excuse because we have had the recession for a while and the government didn’t seem to care about the lack of money then!

All I can think of is that the government wants to be popular. They know that there is a lot of opposition towards compulsary ID cards. Could they be cynical enough to drop the ID card scheme to get votes in the hope that they can reintroduce it on a compulary basis immediately if they get back into power!!!

In my view, yes they could!