Experienced if ID cards help prevent illegal immigration or persuading fierce voters to repeat work (Digital ID cards are good for Britain – and a secret weapon for work against reform, 9 June). At first, actors in an informal economy are skilled in getting new mechanisms. In the second, a canny political operator such as Nigel Farage is likely to be able to return any measures of the labor loss.
Maybe the benefits of ID cards are more than expenses when they are introduced to the flick to a switch. But it costs great and effort. (The costs made of working Join the look more optimistic.) So, ID cards can be a “good” if the government is in a tricky, endless – but not. Government should be better at focusing on focus resources – especially shipping skills – problems that are very important (NHS, schools, waste time on things that don’t.
Simon
London
ID cards are the slippery slope to control. If everything in your life is connected to a digital ID, simply make sure you are following. I am a taxpayer, citizens of law, and if authority (ie police) want to know my name and address, I am happy to tell them. If they are not happy with my answer and it is considered I have sinned, they can catch me.
I feel there is no obligation to prove who I am. My concern is to give some authority in the ability to control me. I will be part of a peaceful demonstration, protesting against a government decision I disagree. In universal ID, it’s easy to ask someone’s card, record it and then mark someone a possible dissterter. We cannot utter something in these lines to make the likes of the Nigel Farage. Call him what he is.
My mother, who should deal with the Nazis in Holland (he was started by a German task as slave labor) said to me: “Don’t live in a country that asks you to bring an id.”
Anthony Baylis
Egham, Surrey
Good luck with suggestions for a digital identity system. Recently I tried to log in to my HMRC account to provide my bank details to get a tax refund. Although I have an account since then, I have been told I need to present my identity by giving a driver’s license or driving. I didn’t drive and lost my passport before. So I’m excluded from the app. Are people like me not to be excluded for applying for a universal ID?
Teresa Loyd-Jones
Nottingham
Polly Toynbee BitHely Deals with obvious hazards to identity cards in a couple of lines. He has written that a serious problem is like your “access to all” cuts “dealing with clear decisions of the courts that are unstoppable in backlogs”. Because nothing happens in any part of our society, it is necessary to change before I enjoy Britecard as advertised.
Ian Dawson
Hoywood, Lancashire
Surely Polly Toynbee pulls the owners of his readers’ readers? Every thought of this article appears to have anti-immigrant prejudices in reforms rather than perform any kind of argument against them. ID cards, especially on smartphones, wide open to abuse of any possible government of future authority. Is this the polly I admire for many years?
Dirk Van Schie
Change to Surrey
