You know me, anything that gets my hackles up tends to make it here.

So, Jacqui Smith, our low cut Home Secretary has announced on a visit to our fair city (well, as fair as it can be) that we might be in the running for a trial of ID cards.

Is this as punishment for advising our elected representatives where to go over the ill-fated TIF Fund referendum?

As someone who is big on personal privacy and civil liberties (admittedly not so hot in practice, damn my reliance on the internet!) I'm already spitting fire that when my passport expires in July I get the opportunity to donate bio-metric data to a government that I can count on to then share with the general public (not on purpose simply down to their sheer incompetence.)

And my thoughts on the ID card are of a similar vane. Data will be managed by a private company, so safe and secure then!!!!!!

Ms Smith's plans for it are also so utterly devoid of ethics I almost have a renewed respect for her balls in in the matter. How she intends to get it off the ground is by encouraging teenagers to sign up for them.

I spend a lot of time on the internet, and where I'm from that's called grooming!

And as an aside, I remember being a teenager. You struggle with your identity as you try to conform, rebel, hide and disguise yourself. It's all part of your transition from child to adult and learning about who you are.

And our government wish to take this step of our natural development away by giving us all a number and file.

I need to get 1984 back off the bookshelf, I'm sure there was something in there about this.