Another example of Blair's conviction in New Labour's competence in total social management.
On a day when a minister has just had to resign, he remains master of the political agenda. This is partly conviction. It is partly embracing the whole range of techniques of total management of giant finance capitalism. Identity cards look as inevitable as the dominance of Microsoft on the internet. >> Identity cards will be introduced "more quickly than even we anticipated", UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has insisted. He told his monthly news conference the government had won over those who opposed the controversial measure for civil liberties reasons. Practical issues and logistics were the only things stopping the introduction of ID cards, he told reporters. "The whole issue of identity cards...are very much on the political agenda here," Mr Blair said. << The material base is dictating the ideological superstructure. Marxism in action in the era of finance capitalism. So inevitable, we hardly notice what is going on. Chris Burford
