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Story: Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics

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Yes it is a mess

The whole conception is a mess and a badly thought out one. The purpose for it's being has not been well justified or explained and it seems like the proverbial sledgehamer to crack a walnut.
But - unless the undesirable ability for arrest and detention pending identification and right to reside is permitted by law - it seems that we are going to get ID cards like the rest of the EU. The get out is the (unlikely) affirmation from David Cameron that the whole concept, other than for airport and similar vulnerable point staff, will be scrapped when the Conservatives hit power.
Must admit that for very many years I carried an ID card and it didn't bother or grossly inconvenience me and that, at my age now, it doesn't really bother me personally as I have no intention of registering for an ID card.
But certainly expect non citizens that, shall we say do not appear on the electoral roll, to have ID documents.

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