I'm afraid the police are already getting in to the swing of things by demanding ID from people and arresting them if they don't have any on them as you can see in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vEE1ue0qR4

... will it be before they simply take DNA straight after you've been born and had your arse smacked?

Then at 16 years of age, you report for your first ID card and then every 10 years you get recalled for a re-issue. No ID card ... no citizenship, no rights, no nothing!

Welcome to 1984 ... 25 years late but thats about right for UK govenment officials.

Anything that this retarded government, under Gordo Brown dreams up,is,by definition, bound to cost £Billions & 100% certain to end in FAILURE.

Why must we always get our fowl feathered friends in a noisy commotion?
Down with the tyrantical sadists!
I suppose next he'll be wanting to get out kittens in the mower.

And they will be useless here too!
RFID fryers and cash will be popular though...

Oh dear. Its only a matter of time before the plot of the subj. movie goes in motion. I feel for you UK.

im with you mate!

terrorists are a figment of our governments imagination and they are using it to slowly imprison the citizens

the government is constantly ignoring the views of the people (who fund their vast and abused expenses system)

Ever get terroist In Your Sights & Then HAVE to Go to bathroom? Happens ALL time In Operations Central. well, After Sucking On Exhaust Pipe ALL Evening, Simply forgot to Pull trigger, errr, Mean Paste Link: Here IT Is:

http://gizmodo.com/5342713/this-is-how-the-cia-kills-terrorists-using-predators

Pretty Sure its vondrasher Fault.

signed:Dumbee'

Every wondered how cool people are that blow up others buildings & autos? heres simulated look. Most drones are radio controled from on site Field trailer. It is unlikely anything as far away as half world make final firing command, merely attack plan. However, they have to be trained somewhere before field bivouac.

Predator Bees' Sting children & even kill'd by their lovely pets, who knows when Drone will go off.

Teams hunta teams & its teamie thang.
vondrashek & Drashek Predator Commentos' Sig catch UP.

the same happens here in the UK when I use my Spanish ID Card, they look up it and then tell me they accept only passports!

Actually, the paper mis-quoted and the article has been corrected. The truth is that "Lord Brett said that countries across Europe have already been contacted by the Identity and Passport Service to ensure they recognise and accept the cards once the first ones are issued". Schengen is actually irrelevant, it is all of the European Economic Area that the cards are valid for :)

Ahh but that's where you're wrong! (At least according to Lord Brett...)

Everyone wants one, but most of them just don't know it yet!

You can make me carry a card when you stick it between my cold dead fingers.

You brits are almost as F@&ked as us Canucs! Yeh we are based on the same legal system as you! Sounds like something that would happen here?

Increasingly the police do not enforce the law they "interpret" and "define" it as they see fit (often in direct contradiction to Court rulings).

It won't be long before police are demanding ID cards regardless of the fact that you have no obligation to carry one or show it.

...as no other country will accept it as a valid travel document, thus preventing them from travelling abroad to attend training camps.

The man in charge of this nonsense actually used that phrase?!

Actually said he wanted to get his ducks in a row?

Good lord, no wonder we're shafted...

Had the UK been part of the Schengen treaty, it would have been possible to establish it's national ID cards as travel documents, replacing the standard passport in EU.

However that is not the case. Countries that singed up that treaty can travel across each other's borders with their national id cards, even if such cards are low tech, hand-written, greek language only, thus easy to reproduce and hard to read.

I wonder if Osama Bin Laden has received his card yet,lol.
8,000 isuued,cost £12 BILLION ..
they must be 24ct gold,encrusted with diamonds.
Now,where's that damn calculator that Gordon Brown sent me,the one that PRUDENCE used?
Erm! whar's the point, it didn't stop our Gordon getting his sums wrong,or was it the fault of deficit spending over 12 years?

oddly the card scheme still goes ahead even tho no-one wants it ..just as all the survelence cameras and traffic cameras ago ahead totally regardless of public opinion.

only to subdue your angst by claiming that it will help stop terrorism!

its purely voluntary of course! to have one but slowly but surely you will be required to produce it on government systems insurance purposes or anything else you find yourself registering with ..thin end of the wedge stuff!

I live in Greater Manchester but there's been nothing through the letterbox, no adverts, no posters, in fact zero public info as to where and how to obtain an ID card. It's almost as if gov.uk wanted the trial to fail.

(Not that I want an ID card anyway.)