ID card benefits 'over-sold'

[denny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4744153.stm

The minister is quoted as saying at the seminar: "Perhaps in the past the government, in its enthusiasm, oversold the advantages of identity cards.

"We did suggest, or at least implied, that they might well be a panacea for identity fraud, for benefit fraud, terrorism, entitlement and access to public services."

Comments

[altered-state.livejournal.com]

love the comment on the first photo... talk about stating the obvious!

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

Nice mangling of the language by one of HM ministers there, faithfully reproduced by the BBC.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

You mean the way his sentence implies that 'entitlement and access to public services' is an evil which ID cards will cure? :)

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of the line that you quoted. "We did suggest, or at least implied...". That uses two exclusive verb forms. It's either, "We did suggest, or at least imply...", or, "We suggested, or at least implied...".
Sorry - reading mangled language jars my head and makes me grind my teeth.
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[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I see. Same sentence but for different reasons then :) It's a nice run-on mess of ramblings, really...