Going Dutch

This probably about covers it in terms of my worries...
"how since the introduction of compulsory ID cards in Holland this year 50,000 people have been fined €50 for not carrying them. This has raised €2.5 million so far.
With the UK government paving a road to compulsion that logically leads to the requirement to carry papers at all times, can we also look forward to regular stops by the police ending with an on the spot fine?
The Home Office certainly needs some way of paying for the ludicrous scheme since the Treasury has already refused to pay for it, and each of us paying £300 or more per card seems likely to undermine Labours popularity in the run up to an election in 2009.
The Dutch experience also begs the question - aside from the 50,000 guilty of a crime that didn’t exist a year ago, how many terrorists, fraudsters or other baddies has their ID scheme discovered or convicted? "
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