congratulations, Jock.

Do you now feel strangely elated and ashamed at the same time? Like you've indulged in some sordid act of self gratification?

That is how I felt when I signed the anti-ID Cards petition despite my thinking that the whole petitions page is an exercise in populist politics without any substance at all (see my blog: http://liberalpolemic.blogspot.com/2006/11/ive-succumbed-to-piece-of-blairite.html).

The temptation is great, but in the long run we mustn't give too much air to this dreadful piece of demagoguery."