Public disaffection

All MPs should have a page like www.dearjacqui.co.uk/ devoted to them. I say this because some, Jacqui Smith included, don't always reply to or even acknowledge receipt of emails sent to their official email address.

Dangblast it! Didn't she pay her husband with our money to do the clerical stuff back in her "second" home in Redditch? What was he doing when he should have been acknowledging my emails? Oh yes, that's right! Part of the time at least he was viewing dodgy stuff that was later "by mistake" claimed on her expenses.

He spent another part of his time writing numerous letters in support of Jacqui's policies to local newspapers, signing them "Richard Timney" (his real name) but failing to add that he is married to one of the most repressive Home Secretaries we've ever had.

There are more restrictions on our freedoms now than there were during World War Two, when we all had to have national ID cards. I've never met anyone who was ever asked to produce their civilian ID card in that period, when national security was genuinely threatened.

Two things most people don't know about WW2 ID cards:

1. They were made of cardboard;

2. They did not (repeat not) have a photograph;

3. They were valid until 1948, the year the National Health Service started. The alphanumeric code unique to your ID card became your NHS identification.

(I just remembered number 3 while typing the first two.)