POLL:- ID CARDS, Are you going to comply?

[love machine]

Ok, I think it would be a good idea to see what the PH massive thinks about refusing ID cards.

Anyway, keep your answers short, you can debate the ethics on another one of the ID card threads.


I'm not having one and that's that.

[diddyman]

No

[minimax]

I'm going to have one, it gives a veneer of respectability that the authorities are unlikely to look past, giving me more opportunity to do what I want right under their noses "but he must be telling the truth, he's got an ID card"

[holbayhead]

you aint seen me...right !

[ninjadave]

Not a chance - I think I'll leave the UK if they bring them.

[V8 Archie]

It'd be bad enough if they were introduced, but there's no way they will make me pay £93 for one.

[maxf]

I don't want one, I disagree with them, their uses and the cost. BUT... after some refusal, the threat of some kind of legal action will probably see me with one.

So, I will - but VERY begrudgingly - and not without causing 'them' some hassle.

[robdickinson]

If I was still here I wouldnt, I wont support something as pointless and expensive as wrong as this.

As I'm leaving the country anyhow I wont have to.

[maxrider]

I refuse to have one, stinks of BB, BUT... I can't see how it'll be possible to avoid it if it becomes part of the passport application like they want it to - no ID card=no foreign travel!

They'll totally shaft us just like they do with everything else - how the hell did these cts get back in?

[chippy17]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
they will have to take me to court

[off_again]

No, in its current form no. The technology doesnt worry me, neither does the potential laws to support it. What worries me is the brain-dead morons who they will employ / contract to run the flippin' thing.

Procedures and security will take a back seat while they plunder, sell and generally manipulate and cock-up our data and rights....

So thanks, but no thanks....

[targarama]

If it is a small credit card sized thing and we have had to pay for it anyway then fair enough - I can carry it in my wallet like my drivers' license. However, when would I ever have cause to use it? Maybe proof of ID at a postoffice to collect a parcel but that's about all I can think of.

I don't mind ID cards. But I also don't think they will make anyones lives any better.

I'd probably leave it at home in the drawer with my passport...

[wizzpig]

They'll have to find me first!

[GKP]

"PAPERS? Ve must hav your papers! Vere are your papers?

Guards, arrest zat man."


What a load of paranoid tosh. If the government thinks that this costly idea is going to stop a group of fanatical terrorists parking a Transit stuffed with high explosives next to Buck House, then they are seriously deluded.

As usual with official paperwork, it will be the law abiding motp's that are already in the loop who wil get inconvenienced and troubled by this idea, while the ones it's supposed to target will carry on regardless. (eg uninsured/unlicened drivers)

[havoc]

Will I petition against their becoming law? Yes, emphatically so.

Will I actively avoid getting one, esp. if threatened with prosecution? Probably not.

[off_again]

havoc said:

Will I petition against their becoming law? Yes, emphatically so. Will I actively avoid getting one, esp. if threatened with prosecution? Probably not.

Very honest there - in reality I would be the same...

[twit]

No way, and I'd be prepared to be in court for it. Did it before with the Poll tax and would do it again. If enough people stand up and shout it won't happen.

[tinman0]

No

[ge2]

maxf said:

I don't want one, I disagree with them, their uses and the cost. BUT... after some refusal, the threat of some kind of legal action will probably see me with one. So, I will - but VERY begrudgingly - and not without causing 'them' some hassle.

Wot he said.

[big_treacle]

For every one of you with no ID card, FIVE OF YOU WILL BE SHOT.



I'll resist!