UK: ID cards: A precaution to protect the society from further terror or infringement of peoples privacy?

Question

UK: ID cards: A precaution to protect the society from further terror or infringement of peoples privacy?

Answer 1

A necessity, I think they are an excellent idea and essential to ensure our safety and well being, why would you object unless you have something to hide?  

Answer 2

I see only one problem.

There's talk of payment of between £85 and £150 each for the card.

After I've paid my money, filled in the form and been contacted to tell my my card is ready for collection (apparently through local police stations), how do I prove I'm me without an ID card.

What's that you say? utility bills, passports etc. Mmmmm, so I need an ID card for what exactly?

Answer 3

An infringement ... Just go through your wallet or purse and see how much ID you already have.  I have a passport, a driving licence, a credit card, a debit card, a library card, a National Trust card, an RAC card, a medical card ... Why do I need even more ID?

Answer 4

Totally unnecessary. I say a infringement of peoples privacy.

Answer 5

UK ID cards are just another way of controlling the people.

What utter claptrap from this Labour UK.gov a while back, claiming that having ID cards will protect the people from terrorist attacks.

Everyone murdered in the terror attacks at the Madrid railway station were ID Card carrying Spanish citizens going about their lawful business.

The Tories say they do not want UK ID Cards - I don't believe them.  I have watched this country become more as George Orwell predicted in his book 1984 with each passing year.

We have nasty politicians on both sides of the House of Commons who are h**l bent on controlling us.  They fear the people and do not believe in liberty.  They only pay lip service to it.

Since becoming fully paid up members of the EU - the UK has become increasingly governed more from Brussels than by the House of Commons, which in many ways is an irrelevance.

It's simply because of it's lack of any real power that politicians seek to invent new ways to control us the people.

They are so secretive they have even managed to hide from us their expense accounts and carry on as though somehow we will forgive and forget.

You all know what to do come the next general election UK 2010!  Yes, vote.  Because failure to do so will play right into the hands of these money grubbing self interested politicians and their parties.

The worst aspect of the proposed UK ID Card is that it will probably cost in the region of £150 per citizen plus it will not act as a passport as is the case with existing EU member state ID Cards.

d**n all politicians.

Answer 6

B) and

here's why

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Answer 7

I'm all for it, I have nothing to hide.  I don't see why we have to pay for it though.

Answer 8

infringement

It's ridiculous to think that ID cards would have any impact at all on terrorism.

Answer 9

How does having a card with your details on it protect you from terrorists? I don't think it will happen. It sounds too n**i-ish. The police would have to walk funny and in large groups demanding "Your papers, please!" "Let me see your papers!"... scary.

It would be better if they just didn't let terrorists in to the country and sent the foreign ones, along with other foreign criminals back to where they came from.

Answer 10

The government want to stalk us.  

Answer 11

if you have nothing to hide why should you have a problem with ID cards

Answer 12

They are just another way of keeping tabs on us for various reasons. A lot of which are probably illegal, but how would we ever know..?

What P,s me off is the FACT that we will have to pay for them ourselves. £60 - £80 was the price being talked about in early 2007, so you can imagine what its going to end up as.

Answer 13

They have id cards in Spain doesnt stop terrorism there so why would it stop it here.

Answer 14

There are much cheaper ways to prevent people who mean us harm form doing their evil deeds.

This is a TOTAL infringement of peoples privacy and I will resist it with everything I've got.

Answer 15

That is pure rubbish, we had them during the second world war, and churchill hated them as it went against our Common laws and Liberties, he abolished them soon as the war ended.  These are being used as a means to phase in the 'chip', then the government will be in complete control of you from satellite and if you don't obey them, they will just turn off your chip.