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Originally Posted by JASON I agree with carrying the cards to stop terrorism,illegal immigrants and fraud.
If it stops the scroungers than all be it..............but it shouldn't be dearer than a passport. |
It wont stop any of those things, infact since its a centralised compulsory system fraud will be much easier. As for terrorism, Spain as ID cards and Madrid still happened there.
The problem is not the ID card per se, but an infrastructure which will allow the government and various agencies (including private companies) to gather all information about you onto a central database and use that information for whatever purposes they desire, and this is at your direct expense, through paying for the card and indirectly through taxes to pay for the £6 billion scheme.
Do you really trust government enough to have that sort of power over you and further still do it at your expense?
And then theres the issue that the system thus far as been said to be completely unable to function. There was a screening which showed the system only worked on 95% of the people; how can a national system fail to comprehend 5%/3 million of the populace?