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Story: Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics

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Re: Home Office again!

While agreeing completely with the commentator in most of what he says, I do wonder about this bit:

: Resident non UK nationals should certainly have
: ID cards

Why? What actual good would it do?

They are presumably natives of another nation and so have passports from that nation in their possession; with the relevant leave to remain and work permit stamps therein.

They wouldn't be required by the act or any other current legislation to carry their shiny new ID cards with them, so a street stop/check would be useless in discriminating legal and illegal aliens. If asked to produce documentation at the local cop shop, the legals would today be able to show their passports etc and the illegals would be in the wind. No difference.

The Home Office are continually looking for sections of the population that are "Obvious" candidates for ID cards so they can divide us up and pick us off group by group. Remember, the ones who already have to have these things aren't going to be howling in protest as each new group is subsumed. It is an old old tactic replayed in budding totalitarian states down through time. Don't let a media inspired subcurrent of resentment against foreigners working here blind-side you. Just go back to the simple practicalities.

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