On Wednesday Ms Smith attempted to reassure people that the content of their e-mails and phone conversations would not be stored and local authorities would not be able to trawl through looking for "lower level criminality".
You'd get Great Big Dirty Lie of the Week for that, love, if I rashly hadn't already awarded it to Mark Thompson for his whopper about Islam and 'TV quality standards' (still giggling, by the way).
The civil liberties side of it is a clinching argument anyway, but let's consider the financial cost, just because we still can. This will cost a phenomenal amount of money, it always does. This phenomenal amount of money must be added to the phenomenal cost of ID cards, the phenomenal cost of Labour's totally botched NHS master computer system, the phenomenal cost of rescuing Northern Crock and the other banks, the phenomenal cost of the Olympics, of PFI...are they trying to bankrupt the country so that the Tories are fucked when they get in, get all the blame and Labour are back in the shortest possible time?
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