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| The last Labour government had in train plans to introduce national registration, which this government aborted (New curbs on EU migrants in Queen's speech, 8 May). There are many practical advantages to the law-abiding person having an ID card, and we are prejudiced by being denied this. When we want to identify ourselves we are obliged to produce utility bills and other such documents to establish our identity – a troublesome business. If I want to renew my British Library card I have to produce a recent document with my address. When I renew my credentials as a police interpreter I need to go to a police station and waste half an hour of their time checking evidence of my identity. In Britain, because bad debts cannot be attached to an individual with an identity card, the debt is apparently attached to the address at which the debtor lived when the debt was incurred. Not clever. | The last Labour government had in train plans to introduce national registration, which this government aborted (New curbs on EU migrants in Queen's speech, 8 May). There are many practical advantages to the law-abiding person having an ID card, and we are prejudiced by being denied this. When we want to identify ourselves we are obliged to produce utility bills and other such documents to establish our identity – a troublesome business. If I want to renew my British Library card I have to produce a recent document with my address. When I renew my credentials as a police interpreter I need to go to a police station and waste half an hour of their time checking evidence of my identity. In Britain, because bad debts cannot be attached to an individual with an identity card, the debt is apparently attached to the address at which the debtor lived when the debt was incurred. Not clever. |
| One suspects that many people expressing views on this subject have never experienced living under a system of universal identification. It operates effectively in European countries. It worked in Britain during the second world war. It is a sensible means of storing information with which we can easily prove our identity. An incidental gain is that it furnishes the only effective means of identifying illegal immigrants. Russell Jones Penryn, Cornwall | One suspects that many people expressing views on this subject have never experienced living under a system of universal identification. It operates effectively in European countries. It worked in Britain during the second world war. It is a sensible means of storing information with which we can easily prove our identity. An incidental gain is that it furnishes the only effective means of identifying illegal immigrants. Russell Jones Penryn, Cornwall |
| • So landlords are to be responsible for ensuring their tenants are not illegal immigrants: no Irish; no blacks; no dogs. Nobody who looks like they might be an immigrant. Back to the bad old days. Trudie Goodwin London | • So landlords are to be responsible for ensuring their tenants are not illegal immigrants: no Irish; no blacks; no dogs. Nobody who looks like they might be an immigrant. Back to the bad old days. Trudie Goodwin London |
| • Gordon Brown's election hit the skids when he said a woman who complained about immigrants was a bigot. Tories imply that the shortage of housing and jobs is the result of immigration, Ukip says close the borders. When did it become OK to be a bigot, but wrong to call someone out for it? Joanne Columbine Bury | • Gordon Brown's election hit the skids when he said a woman who complained about immigrants was a bigot. Tories imply that the shortage of housing and jobs is the result of immigration, Ukip says close the borders. When did it become OK to be a bigot, but wrong to call someone out for it? Joanne Columbine Bury |
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