I *heart* the Lords

They are unelected, unaccountable and a bastion of inherited privilege and cronyism. But, by all that's sacred, they are all that lies between us and NuLabour's 1984 vision of society, and they are very very good at dismantling the crap:

'Although the government seeks to pretend otherwise, our ID card project is uniquely vast, complex and intrusive. It risks outscandalising the Eurofighter, the Millennium Dome, the Scottish parliament, the driving licence and NHS computer projects and a host of other less daunting cock-ups.'

Hat tip to Europhobia.