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Just as the Bush administration shouted "They've got Weapons of Mass Destruction!" about Iraq until it turned out they hadn't, then shouted even louder "We never said they had Weapons of Mass Destruction! No, it sounded like that but what we actually said was 'Saddam Hussein is a bad man who abuses his citizens!'" so David Blunkett seems to have decided to abandon his "ID Cards stop terrorism!" schtick after coming unschtuck on the next question of "How exactly?". So today he's back on what for him must feel like safer territory: Xenophobia. Shiteyes tells Scots: If you exercise your democratically devolved right to not have ID Cards, your country will be swamped by nasty health tourists. And as health tourism is one of those things that is almost impossible to measure, Blunkett's free to claim "oooh, there's zillions of foreigners coming over to take advantage of the right in the UK to wait on a hospital trolley for weeks before a doctor even notices you" with impunity.