Why?

Thus far, I have not been convinced by a single argument in favour of Identity Cards. Several were debunked in your article - namely that we already manage to achieve every single one of the things that would apparently be administratively easier with ID cards.

I don't understand how the carrying about ones person a piece of plastic with one's name on it prevents the detonation of an explosive device.

I don't understand how said piece of plastic will prevent illegal immigration more effectively than border guards - people manage to fake passports, why can't they fake these? For those that lack the requisite faking-abilities, there will still be black market shrimp fishing jobs in Morecombe Bay, just as there are now.

Finally, if we are not universally required to have these cards on us at all times, I have even less ability to see how these objectives can be met.

Why not..

Almost every single country on the planet has a compulsary ID card scheme, why should we not have one?

If you are a honest person, you have nothing to fear, it's only the scumbag dole scroungers, illegal immigrants and crooks that have something to fear..

NO2ID

Fingerprint readers are not as bad as readers who must read aloud or in lip-synch. I can see where they smudge credentials, being hands-on touchy-feely.

If the Home Office MUST have this, why don't they let the Americans or EU to pay for it? The Americans are already drooling about their "Server in the Skye," and Eurofeds are seeking similar IDs.

In Blighty, everyone knows most blokes anyway. So this just may be a foreign-based phishing-scheme? I fail to conger how pub printing punters will emancipate them, students or not. Is that poppiepanda?

As for NO2ID, shite, is it that No. 2? I agree that most people don't want their dirty laundry wafting through cyberspace on the interwibble. That's just pants!