Every European county has an ID card system except GB. the
[email protected] cannot understand how the hell we fight crime without them. I never thought about it before I came here, but now I'm here I also really wonder why Britain doesn't have one.
On one hand I like the idea that you're freer in Britain, you don'tn have to have a fixed residence or an ID card, so you feel less controlled by the authorities, but that's all well and good for us law-abiding citizens, but not so for criminals and frauds.
In Europe you have to have your driving licence and ID on you AT ALL TIMES, but this is necessary as insurance covers the car for any driver, so they can't just jot down the registration and know who was driving the car.
In general I'm FOR ID cards, but on the other hand we have onme of the best polcing systems in the world and if it's worked so far without, why bother introducing them?