“Good news everyone!”

Today I glimpsed a rare snippet of positive news amongst the usual milieu of depressing headlines. Namely the announcement by David ‘Basher’ Davis that if the Tories win the next general election they’ll scrap the IDiotic ID card scheme, joining the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, and a host of other parties across the political spectrum who are all opposed to it. With the exception being of course, New Labour.

Now I’m no blinkered optimist, just the normal type. I seriously doubt the Tories will win the next general Election, a hung parliament is the most likely outcome. However Cameron may be able to form a minority government with Liberal support given that he will most definitely be able to play the popular vote card. The Tories trailed 3% at the last election, but paradoxically, due to our very dated constituency boundaries; polled more votes than New Labour in England. If Cameron does manage to close that gap, then the democratic injustice would be too great a constitutional anomaly to ignore.

That being the case, there is a good chance that we’ll have a minority Lib/Con Cameron government staunchly opposed to ID cards come 2009-10. However, if through the hazy mists of a hung parliament a Lib/Lab government manages to rise from the ashes of Labour’s tenure, a likely condition of that government (unless the Lib Dems decided upon a particularly egregious soul-selling lunge for power), will be a demand that the ID card scheme be shelved.

Thus in the great scheme of things the odds are that those ID cards will be dropped quicker than a Turkey with a runny nose come the next election. Good news for everyone, as professor Farnsworth would say.

Initiative for January: Adopt an MP

Being the good and humble citizen that I am I have decided to follow our dear leader and company’s example and adopt a wacky initiative to try and grab a headline or two.

I have decided that a) the rabble in the house of commons need to be held truly accountable, and that b) us bloggers are the ones to do it! Now, that’s all well and good; however being as there are quite a few of those loathsome brutes skulking around the corridors of power we’ll have to pare it down a bit, thus it’ll be one blogger to one MP at first, and then we’ll get some team action going when everyone’s seen too.

That was easy, and I’d be surprised if it took any more time than Blair needed in order to produce his excellent democracy in Iraq initiative, though pehaps I’m being a little facetious.

Now the fun part, except as always there is some clever dick ahead of the curve. Iain Dale has already adopted his little chipmunk, and thusly Hazel ‘tow the line’ Blears is off limits until every MP has a blogger.

I’ll get the ball rolling, my chosen MP is none other than Lembit Opik, the cheeky member for Montgomeryshire. I’ve set my Google alerts, and any cheeky shenanigans will be reported! Read about Lembit’s cheeky comments in the house here, needless to say his two lines were rollickingly good, I especially liked the bit where he mentioned he was cheeky, what a crazy guy!

(Pictures shamelessly pilfered from the BBC)