Voting

[Workingman]

Then someone steals your handbag and your ID card goes with it. Now you can't function. In fact you can't even prove who you are without it and if you can't prove who you are, then how do you get your documents to get your new ID card?

Eh? Same as you do now if someone steals your your passport, driving licence, bank cards, NHS and NI cards; you apply for a new one.... You do not need the old one, you do realise that?

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.

[Kaz]

I do think this is paranoia, yes! Passports already have biometric date, and as Frank said if you lose the card, you reapply Doesn't France have ID cards? It can't be that bad living under Big Brother, as you've chosen to

[Suff]

I only need my passport to travel. You both miss the point. Once ID cards are issued they will worm their way into everything.

I lost my passport I can't travel for a few weeks. Not a huge issue and I can even pay more to get a new one faster.

You lose your ID card at a critical point? Then you are at the mercy of the government ID card services as to when you get your life back. Oh it's all to easy to blow it all off and call it paranoid and say "yes but it's just a passport isn't it?".

No it isn't. I Choose to have a passport. It is all the difference in the world. The UK already offers multiple different ways of achieving what an ID card gives you. There is no Need for an ID card except for people who don't want to resolve the problem, they want the government to resolve the problem for them.

ID cards are not the resolution of a problem for people who just want the government to "fix it". They are the Start of a whole range of other problems.

You will never see me voting for an ID card. I have been in far too many different countries working with far too many people who are forced to carry an ID. When you talk to them about what the government is incrementally imposing on them the answer is always the same. "Well I can't change it so I just have to make the best of it".

You think my dislike of ID cards comes from 7 years in the Army having to carry one? No it comes from near 30 years of living and working with those who are forced to have one. Plus a bit of F.U. to the Army too.

[saundra]

My vote came today it's in the bin
No trust for local or government or MP
Silent knight enough said