http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/13/id_marketeer_sought/
John Lettice
The Home Office is hiring a head of spin in order to sell ID cards to the British public, despite the fact that it has not yet published the response to the 'consultation' earlier this year, and has yet to put a bill before parliament, far less get parliament to pass it. Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Mark Oaten has cried foul to both the BBC and Telegraph (registration required, life's too short), but while it's nice to see MPs starting to notice that the Home Office regards them as a tiresome formality, it's not exactly news."
