Freedom of Movement to be replaced by

[SueEllen]

I've worked in a European country without a mandatory photographic ID card or even a mandatory ID card in the past.

Instead you registered at a population office and given an ID number on a piece of paper. You then used this ID number on a piece of paper plus your passport to open a bank account. The ID number was then printed on your bank card with your mugshot and you them used your bank card as ID.

If you were one of the few people who didn't have a bank account, passport and/or driving licence - which were all linked to your population ID - then you could buy a photographic ID card.

Point is the British aren't unreasonable in not having ID cards, the issue is not being allowed to link people's data on different government databases.

[meridian]

Freedom of Movement to be replaced by

Point is the British aren't unreasonable in not having ID cards, the issue is not being allowed to link people's data on different government databases.

Respectfully, I disagree that that is the point - the point is that the British may or may not be unreasonable in not having a single ID card system, but any show of unreasonableness against having ID cards is baseless, because they already have them (albeit in different forms with different names).

Take renting a property. Under U.K. law, a person must show proof of entitlement to the right to rent a property in England. That applies to any resident, including British citizens, and must be verified by one or more ID documents. The list is here (section 5.2):

https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-february-2016

Don’t want an ID card? That’s fine, they’re not mandatory. But you cannot then expect to be able to rent a property without one (an ID card in a different form with a different name, but for all intents and purposes a proof of ID being used as a proof of entitlement to rent).

[vetran]

I think he stays off here when he gets home as he's embarrassed to tell his Mom, partner, dog, that he voted leave and he doesn't want them seeing him on here posting his leaver dribble.

maybe he has a life? During the weekend he is shagging yer mum & sister!