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Most recent annotations on things by Charles Clarke
- Chris Lightfoot: Charles Clarke is gone, but not forgotten; his legacy at the Home Office lives on. According to Joan Ryan, now Minister of State responsible for ID cards, Clarke's answer here was incorrect:... (27 May 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Sam Evans: If someone can get to Somalia under his own steam, that same person can be escorted to Somalia and dumped. End of problem. (4 May 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Duncan Drury: Surely all the paperwork to make a decision must have been available - most likely on someone's desk while they were signing release papers (or whatever other paperwork gets signed when someone... (28 April 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Callum Wood.: (I've said this before somewhere) - there was a time when minister would have to resign for something like this. Ultimately, any blame in the Home Office, Police, Prisons, Immigration, etc.,... (27 April 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Chris Lightfoot: The claim about ID cards is... strange. To start with, the people released were foreigners and so might not even be on the ID card register. Secondly, how would ID cards help the Home Office find... (27 April 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - R Griffiths: It's always nice to be professional when criminalising a nation. Well done everyone. (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - R Griffiths: The ONLY safe guard is no ID card. Governments are incompentent administrators, they always have been and always will be. They'll probably use this as an excuse to out source to the private... (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - R Griffiths: This is a threat to those who don't get ID cards. I don't have one now and I have no problems buying services. Yet he is saying I will have problems in the future if I don't get an ID card. This... (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - R Griffiths: These MP's behave like children whilst wilfully criminalising an entire nation. (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Murk : The man's a fool (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tom Morris: Blatant lie! The original approach was marketing it as an "entitlement card" which would only be used by people collecting state benefits in order to prove that they are owed said benefits. (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tom Morris: It does prove the vapidity and incompetence behind the whole project. (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Chris Lightfoot: The Home Office used to say that the National Identity Register would be a new, clean register. They've since abandoned that in favour of merely making it an extension of the Passport Service... (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Murk : Perhaps I can also emphasise that fact that, as I have already made clear in debates in the House, anyone who feels strongly enough about the linkage not to want to be issued with an ID card in... (30 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Sam Evans: People choose not to have a passport because they don't want / can't afford to travel abroad - that, after all, is the reason that people obtain a passport in the first place. A driving... (14 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Peter Edwards: Once again the Home Secretary tries too push through ID legislation without the consent of the people, as I have previously stated in other comments, has he forgotten, he is there to serve, not... (14 March 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Michael Watts: It is with the wisdom of age that i comment. I think that freedom of expression can only be fully appreciated to the full when one has the benefit of hindsite aquired with age. Therefore it is... (9 February 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Michael Watts: It is with the wisdom of age that i comment. I think that freedom of expression can only be fully appreciated to the full when one has the benefit of hindsite aquired with age. Therefore it is... (9 February 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - John Finhorn: Amended version If freedom of speech and expression are "Absolutley" essential to our national life why the need for the infamous "religious hatered Bill"? was not this Bill in the beginning... (9 February 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - John Finhorn: If freedom of speech and expression are "Absolutley" essential to our national life why the need for the infamous "religious hatereIf Bill"? was not this Bill in the beginning drafted in such... (9 February 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - John Finhorn: Mr Clarks praise for the media on this occasion is mis leading the Media kept a low profile and did not print the Mohammed cartoons not out of respect or for the good of the country but out of... (7 February 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Paul Mitchell: Is cannabis "harmful", "potentially harmful" or "anything but harmless"? Is it class "A", potentially class "B" or anything but unclassified? The Home Secretary commingling Government policy... (22 January 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Callum Wood.: My word! Clarke is almost endorsing Cannabis - by allowing possession to be legal, he's letting people get away with it. All drugs should be class A - if they're illegal, then there must be... (22 January 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - stinky will: I agree ask the thousands of smokers and you will see the light mr clarke,some of us in fact most of us are exercising our right to ingest any substance we choose into the body that we not you... (22 January 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - colin preece: ask the bbc to do a 10 hour documentary. (21 January 2006)
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