[jambutty]

Originally Posted by garinda

You never hear old people moaning about the identity cards that were issued to the whole country, as part of the 1939 National Registration Act.

(Departs, and waits for an old person to start moaning about what a flippin' liberty a national D.N.A base would be.)

The Identity Cards were issued because we were at war and were, quite rightly, discontinued after the war had ended.