Despite Charles Clarke's best efforts, I remain unconvinced that the benefits of introducing ID cards will ever outweigh their costs. If anything, the case against ID cards strengthens over time.
My only hope for today's second reading is that Conservatives see reason and vote against, Liberal Democrats have no diary clashes today, turn up and vote against whilst I expect Scottish Labour MPs to reflect the views of their Scottish Parliament and either vote against the Government or abstain.
Labour should remember they stand on very weak constitutional ground, they have no popular mandate in England. They won England thanks to an archaic electoral system not reflecting current demographics rather than offering the electorate the most popular manifesto. Labour polled 60,000 less votes than the Conservatives in England.
How do they reconcile this with introducing such controversial legislation? When will the house of cards collapse?
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