
They will be compulsory. Oh, they will tell you it's all voluntary and fluffy, but in a few years banks etc will give you funny looks for not having one and your life will be totally screwed when the database becomes tainted (actually, it will start out tainted as it is being seeded with data known to be wrong).
You think getting the DVLA to acknowledge their cock up bad? That'll be nothing compared to having NIS admit they are wrong, non-person.
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You think getting the DVLA to acknowledge their cock up bad? That'll be nothing compared to having NIS admit they are wrong, non-person.

getting them to pay for it for me. i am poor.
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did that prevent terrorism?
did it fuck
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did it fuck

Plus we need biometric fingerprinting at all train stations and airports. And if you lily-livered whingeing liberals don't accept it then the army and the police ought to down tools and say "look after yourselves then".
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Gordon Brown's sold them to immigrants
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Gordon Brown - Cunt
Jacqui Smith - Cunt
ID Cards - not the problem, it's the database
ID Database - perfect for citizen control, fuck all use against terrorism
Vote these fuckers out!
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Jacqui Smith - Cunt
ID Cards - not the problem, it's the database
ID Database - perfect for citizen control, fuck all use against terrorism
Vote these fuckers out!

They stop people touching children over the internet.
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Anyhoo I got to shoot off, I'm away to see a gay couple about renting a room in their trendy flat.
How very metrosexual of me.
Toodles.
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How very metrosexual of me.
Toodles.

All our MPs are bunch of self-serving bastards.
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and a one off 'pointless splitting up of the cost to try vainly to make it seem cheaper than it actually is' fee of another thirty quid! Obviously AFTER you've shelled out eighty quid or whatever the feck it is for a cocking passport!


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It’s the building and maintenance costs.
The breaches in security costs.
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The breaches in security costs.

they get to pay £60 for a useless piece of plastic and to have their biometrics extracted and put on a not very secure database - which they're on for life (you can't get your record deleted) - but only if they've got a passport (£72)
cost of (non-intrusive) ID card in Spain: 6 Euros
what a bunch of total bollocks
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cost of (non-intrusive) ID card in Spain: 6 Euros
what a bunch of total bollocks

but they're mancs ;)
i may get to see spanish id cards next week. yay holidays!
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i may get to see spanish id cards next week. yay holidays!

Damn silly, impossible-to-implement idea which will cost a fortune.
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because the projected cost (~£3bn) isn't funded by the taxpayer - it's funded by...the public!
a) £3bn is the apparent cost to the Home Office only. Nobody knows what it will cost to any other govt department (should any of them actually be interested)
b) the public are generally taxpayers
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a) £3bn is the apparent cost to the Home Office only. Nobody knows what it will cost to any other govt department (should any of them actually be interested)
b) the public are generally taxpayers

That's the the worst of it. hence 'will cost a fortune'.
I don't recall getting a vote on this, either....
Hmmmm *ponders*
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I don't recall getting a vote on this, either....
Hmmmm *ponders*

1) terrorism, rather than being a significant threat to our democracy and way of life is a convenient was to make being a lazy politician in power easy
2) ID cards and databases are a significant threat to our democracy and way of life
3) the government can not be trusted with our details, this is equally true of the DNA databse which is, in theory, a good idea but would be stuffed up in practice.
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2) ID cards and databases are a significant threat to our democracy and way of life
3) the government can not be trusted with our details, this is equally true of the DNA databse which is, in theory, a good idea but would be stuffed up in practice.

lets have an image challenge and bring the system down.
It may not work!
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It may not work!

if the Home Office puts your details in wrong (a typo, for example, or a bit of dodgy OCR), then...er...you're responsible
"umm...it says you're called Mr Thmopson"
"no, I'm Mr Thompson"
"hmm...it doesn't match. I'll have to detain you"
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"umm...it says you're called Mr Thmopson"
"no, I'm Mr Thompson"
"hmm...it doesn't match. I'll have to detain you"

No I'm mr Thmopson . Mr Thompson owes you £50,000. go get that guy.
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I have loads of fun with this - my first name isn't my given name; my dad wanted to name me after his dad, my mother didn't, so my first name is my granddad's name but I never use it, except on forms... so:
"what's your name Sir...?"
"well - it could be one of two things"
"No - it couldn't..."
all that aside - I might not be fundamentally opposed to some sort of citizenship register, they already have so many of our details anyway a card's not going to make fuck all difference, but the reasons they give for needing it are the same tenuous ones they give for everything else there's a sinister ulterior motive for (*cough* Iraq *cough*) and I think it's due in no small part to having shoddy hopeless lazy spineless Home Secretaries... who let the police (who think everyone is a potential criminal) get away with fucking murder.
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"what's your name Sir...?"
"well - it could be one of two things"
"No - it couldn't..."
all that aside - I might not be fundamentally opposed to some sort of citizenship register, they already have so many of our details anyway a card's not going to make fuck all difference, but the reasons they give for needing it are the same tenuous ones they give for everything else there's a sinister ulterior motive for (*cough* Iraq *cough*) and I think it's due in no small part to having shoddy hopeless lazy spineless Home Secretaries... who let the police (who think everyone is a potential criminal) get away with fucking murder.