Wow
Take a care then geezer, cause if you are native born around these isles, replacing one will cost you cash; which doesn't seem quite right, frankly

Just to have some national identification
( Jahled 1.1%er, Sun 25 May 2008, 23:56, archived)

it's more than just national id
and that's what they claim you're paying for.

is fucking expensive though, was pissed off when i got my first adult one as i'd been told that i'd get a free 5-year extension to my child one, but when i came to renew was told that as it was issued after a certain date they'd changed their rules and not told anyone
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 25 May 2008, 23:58, archived)

I don't think mine needs renewing for another 6 years, and to be honest I was planning to emmigrate at some point (although it will clearly never happen)
and then I might be able to get free renewals on a British passport as an expat, I honestly don't know.

Plus to prove my existence to the Italian government I need to send them a birth certificate, an actual one not a photocopy, which cost about 70 quid or something.
(Jeru War and Piss, Mon 26 May 2008, 0:02, archived)