The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith stunned many people today when she stated with regards to ID cards, "I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long."

Her comments came despite well organised opposition to the scheme across the country and opposition from political parties. In fact both the Tories and Lib Dems state they would scrap the scheme.

Ms. Smith stated "But I believe there is a demand, now, for cards - and as I go round the country I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long. "I now want to put that to the test and find a way to allow those people who want a card sooner to be able to pre-register their interest as early as the first few months of next year." She told the BBC: "We'll see where that interest is, and then we'll see if we can issue some cards to those who've expressed an interest by the end of next year." 

Editorial

We here at cherryvalleyvillage.co.uk having evaluated the opposition nationally to this scheme, even politically, find the comments made by the Home Secretary hard to digest. Having spent too many years under the New Labour Spin Machine, it is now second nature for us to question every word, they utter.

We have made a Freedom of Information request on this matter, as Ms. Smith seeks to use it to persuade us all, that such a scheme is not widely opposed. Serious questions have to be answered, her definition of 'regularly' is the first, for one would image that security around the Home Secretary is high at all times, and surely those who meet a 'celeb' for the first time in passing, would not automatically approach them on such as issue. Are the people the Home Secretary refers to stakeholders, contractors, consultants, civil servants, agents or politicians, for no-one can imagine that the average Joe, would rush up to a well protected stranger in the street and voice this issue above lets say, financial ruin, collapsing banks or pensioners that feel abandoned by the Labour State.