Reply to post: Re: @ Velv

Re: @ Velv

(As I have said elsewhere on El Reg, ID cards are essentially an instrument of public administration.)

Bollocks

I have a passport, I don't need an ID card.

I don't want to be stopped in the street and told to produce papers, without the right, nay, the obligation to direct the questioner to employ the advice given in arkell vs pressdram - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/arkell-v-pressdram.html

I'm more than capable of understanding that the kickbacks are ready and waiting to be spent on yet another shitty oracle frontend, with bored, underpaid, and untrained staff in some hellcage merrily conflating people with names like "Nish Kumar" with names like "Nish Patel" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/03/my-name-is-nish-kumar-so-please-stop-calling-me-nish-patel

Sorry, I'd rather the existing mess of ID which makes life harder for fraudsters, viv la confusing hodgepodge of identity documents.