Tory MP for Harwich and Clacton, Douglas Carswell writes about his opposition to ID cards and his belief that they’ll do little to protect the country from terrorists, and much as it galls me to agree with a Tory, I have to agree. Carswell the goes on to list three things he believes the government should be doing, his second point is.

They’d stop handing out British passports and visas overseas the way that they do. (Soon after entering Parliament, I discovered, for example, that the Foreign Office has given away so many British passports in Pakistan that no one even really knows how many people living in Pakistan now have UK citizenship.)

I can’t make a better reply than the author of the Conservative and Unionist Blog:

Guess what, Douglas old pal. I’ll bet they don’t know how many people living in Germany have British citizenship either – because the UK’s foreign office have no control over who lives in either country. But, hey, Germans (in general) aren’t as likely to scare the voters.

As I said at the start don’t vote Tory if you hate racists.