Who will accept ID cards?

[Adrian Midgley]

Roland Perry wrote:

> You said "It shall be an offence to request any other or additional form
> of identification if a national ID card is presented", and I've
> interpreted that to mean you would force all possible transaction points
> to accept a national ID card, because it's possible to *present* such a
> card at any time, irrespective of whether or not there's currently the
> ability to accept a national ID card at all.
> 
> For example, at the reception desk of a hospital ward, a health
> professional might today want to show their NHS ID to gain admission.
> But it's *possible* to wave a national ID card at them, so they wouldn't
> be allowed to ask for more than that.


If you have it, you can wave it.

SO they need to be ready to let people do or have whatever it is that
they want to know about entitlement to.

Practically, I'd think that any sensible orgnaisation will adopt a
reliable system that is provided for them.


I don't see the point of a State setting up an ID card that people
within or subject to that state are free to deny demonstrates identity.

And returning again to the point I think is key, of a State providing a
service to its inhabitants, selling people a system that means they need
not be bothere by anyone else's (often very stupid) system is a service.
 Requiring them to carry yet another system that only works sometimes is
the opposite.

If the State is going to play, then let us have _service_ from it.



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