Guido is carrying a copy of an official Labour leaflet from the Crewe & Nantwich by-election. It's a crass series of questions attempting to portray the Conservative candidate as a (yawn) toff.
But squirreled away in the list is this beauty: "Do you oppose making foreign nationals carry an ID card?"
So that's the latest excuse for wasting billions on ID cards. At one stage they were a welfare entitlements card. Then it was all about anti-terrorism. Now it's "let's put the boot into foreigners."
This reeks. Not just because Labour would have raised blue murder if a Conservative had pulled a similar stunt. But because it's offensive, inflammatory and simply wrong. Apparently it's being distributed in the "poorer socio-economic areas" of Crewe - traditional Labour areas we can assume. It's a revealing illustration of what Labour really thinks about its core voters and what motivates them.
Every member of the cabinet, starting with Gordon Brown, should be asked to condemn this leaflet. Whoever authorised it should be dismissed from their campaign team.
