He said: "I'm aware that the Home Office will be looking at that. Certainly in recent times there has been enhanced security for those leaving the country as well as for those coming into the United Kingdom.
"It's one of those arguments that we have used to support the idea of identity cards, because it is vitally important that we are able to say who is in the United Kingdom at any given time."
Leader of the Commons Geoff Hoon
Oi! Fuckwit! What do you think passports are for?
exactly!
TeeJay on 2005-07-31T19:17:28
I mean how exactly would ID Cards help if they aren't checking anything when exiting the country, or he could obviously have a fake foreign id (which ID Cards won't stop) which would get him past the rather poor security that was supposed to be looking out for people fleeing the country.
I saw him say that this morning as well. The guy is clearly a fool. It's his poor planning for 'victory' in Iraq (amongst others) that has contributed to all this mess.
