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First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards

Milton

"If even that question stumps you ..."

"The one-time Tory leadership contender, who fell from grace amid the Windrush scandal, begun by asking how often people clear their cookies. 'If even that question stumps you I suggest you get a tutorial,' she said adversarially – which seems a bit rich from the person who didn't know the difference between hashing and hashtags."

The problem, Ms Rudd, is that you have already repeatedly demonstrated that you are (a) not awfully bright, (b) not very knowledgeable about technology—or indeed anything else, based on the evidence of your career and remarks thus far, (c) display authoritarian instincts through breezy and often ignorant dismissals of what are, in fact, issues at the very core of a free society, and (d) cannot articulate an evidence-based case for the benefits or cost-effectiveness of what you are asking for.

Your relentless vague blather may suit Mme Tussaud's Dumpster Collection propped up on the Tory back benches, but it cuts no ice whatever with people who actually understand the technical issues and care about the true consequences of your proposals.

For one thing, those who have observed governments over the past 35 years—the period since the mid-80s when Career Politicians began to parasitise everything, and governments forgot that they did not exist solely to provide corporate welfare—know that any extra powers are always abused. It has become a fact of life. When even local councils are exploiting anti-terror laws to spy on folks' wheelie bins you know that the cat is entirely out of the bag.

You cannot keep repeating "Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear" with a scrap of credibility. Successive governments' actions clearly prove otherwise. A tool of criminal investigation becomes a tool of repression in the blink of an eye. In short, no one but a naïve fool would trust you.

I doubt that as many as 25% of El Reg readers¹ could be less intelligent and knowledgeable than you, Ms Rudd—it's one of the depressing aspects of modern life that, whereas once we could respect politicians, even those we disagreed with, now we regard them with the contempt they earn daily through stupidity, ignorance and dishonesty. Bluntly, we see right through you and your claptrap.

So please, stop mouthing. Just go away. Find some socially productive employment suited to your abilities. I daresay you and Mr Johnson might, for example, make a formidable team cleaning Euston's public toilets? He can quote Classics while scrubbing diligently. You could learn to conjugate.

¹ And probably no more than 75% of Mail or Express readers, even, which allows us to position you informatively on the Mouthbreather Index, too.

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