Is there no end
to the Nepotism displayed by the NuLab money grabbers. Following the scandal of
the ongoing Cash for Peerages enquiry, the Golden Arrow lobby debacle and the
Blunkett involvement in the DNA testing company scandal, which led directly to the financial ruin of DNA Bioscience,
we now find that David Blunkett is acting as an advisor to the company that
wants to run the UK ID card scheme.
As reported in
the Observer,
The former Home Secretary took up the post for the Texas-based security firm
Entrust, which specialises in securing digital information and combating
identity theft, earlier this month. The firm already provides software for the
Spanish national ID card system and has formally registered an interest in the
British project.
Blunkett is bound
by a two-year ban on lobbying British ministers and officials from the date he
resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary in November 2005. That does not expire
until this November. His spokeswoman insisted yesterday that he would not be
working in Britain for the company and would only advise on
overseas work.
The post as chair
of Entrust's international advisory committee is declared in Blunkett's latest
entry for the Commons register of members' interests. A spokeswoman for the
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments said it had also been notified and
that it approved, subject to the two-year moratorium on lobbying in Britain.
So no doubt
Blunkett will now be working closely with unelected European Comissioner
Peter Mandelson and European Minister Geoff Hoon when he is working on European
Council business.
I find this kind
of Nepotism sickening.
Andrew Pinder,
Senior Vice President, EMEA & Global Government Sales Strategy for
Entrust (Europe) Ltd, whose role is to lead our global government efforts on
projects such as the move to ePassports, national ID Cards and
securing citizen identities and information.
Between October 2000 and August 2004,
Andrew was the UK's E-Envoy, responsible directly to the
Prime Minister for co-ordinating the development of the knowledge economy in
the UK.
Andrew is also a non executive director of
United Utilities plc, and Spring Group plc, an IT recruitment company and President
of Gov3, an ICT consulting company staffed by former members of the Office of the e-Envoy,
He is also Chairman of BECTA, the UK government agency that supplies IT to
schools, including the fingerprint equipment that is stealing the fingerprint ID’s of
hundreds of thousands of UK children.
He was awarded the CBE in the 2004 new year's Honours list.
CONFLICT OF
INTEREST ?
David Blunkett
should feel right at home here, scandal, illegal fingerprinting of
children in the UK, European child ID Card schemes and fingerprinting
from birth planned in secret, ID cards for all, European control.
Say NO to ID
cards, Say NO to the Database State
