Media wipe out

Seems that those watching the "This Week" political show with Andrew Neil, were in a for a bit of a surprise when Labour MP Diane Abbott (who described the government's ID cards Bill as 'garbage') was abruptly silenced whilst discussing the issue on the show mid flow.

BBC1 mysteriously cut out for about a minute while she was laying into the goverment's spin machine agenda.

List of Labour MPs who voted against the ID Card Bill.

Briefly: More on ID Cards

Blair government sat on illegal immigration figures throughout the election campaign, pretending they didn't exist and then they suddenly found a number amid growing opposition to their ID card policy.