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Europhobia has an excellent post on ID Cards
The problem(s) with ID cards

Everyone I’ve spoken to recently has been doing the same old “if you’ve done nothing wrong…” arguments, usually followed by the “so what’s the big deal?” line. Normally, after a five minute rant, I manage to convince them that this is one of the most intrusive and unpleasantly fascistic laws this country has yet seen, that it’s the first step down the slippery slope to genetic databases and every dystopia ever envisaged.

But usually what gets them is “what? I’ll have to pay eighty-five quid for this thing?”
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