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I wonder if this means I'd get fined £1000 every time I forget to tell the government I've got an eczema attack on my fingers? Good thing I'm going to refuse to get one of their ID cards then...

And charging transexuals twice for the card, once for each gender? Whose bright idea was that?

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And charging transexuals twice for the card, once for each gender? Whose bright idea was that?

Is that even legal? Doesn't it constitute discrimination or something?

Another fun point the Grauniad missed (but No2ID noticed a couple of years ago) is that the Secretary of State can require you to present your ID card for inspection anywhere they damn well please, including 2am in the morning of Hogmanay at the top of a mountain, and it's a £1000 fine if you fail to do so.

(If it was "within one week, at a police station of your choice" -- as is the case with driving license/car paperwork -- that'd be reasonable. But anywhere? That's a license for harassment, by designating locations that are inaccessible or expensive to get to: telling Londoners to present in Edinburgh, or vice versa, for example.)

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It appears to be optional, for transexuals who WANT both.

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Sorry - saying that does not constitute any belief that the ID card scheme is a good idea - I think it's going to be a disaster.

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I see that the homeless, migratory labourers and Travellers are in for a rough deal - which was predicted two years ago and ignored with the bland reassuring tone of spokesmen who know they'll be working for another ministry in a year.

Will someone kindly publish transcripts of the official consultation with the homeless person who lives in that railway arch? I suspect that the phrases 'indistinct', 'repeated' and 'deleted expletive' will feature prominently in the dialogue... And that's if they got one of the relatively sane ones on a good day.

Transgendered people get two cards, with distinct identities, referencing the same entry in the national ID register... I love the smell of burning databases in the morning. Do you reckon anybody mentioned that when the consultants wrote the schema and started building tables?

I will leave you with

pfy's observation that a trangendered gypsy is an interesting thing to be.

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"People who fail to tell the authorities of a change of address ..."

"The Home Office made clear that repeated failures to keep an entry on the national identity register up to date could ultimately be enforced by bailiffs being sent round to seize property."

Um ...

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'Hello Sir, we've come to steal your property for HMG."

'Oh! Sorry, but you can't do that. It's not my property. I don't live here. This isn't my registered address.'

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and this:
"The Home Office say they will not need to police this aspect as it will soon become apparent when somebody tries, for example, to get on a plane with a ID card/passport with an out of date address that does not match that the bank debit/credit card they used to book the flight.

They say they may well find themselves not being allowed to travel. "

Except that my flight might be booked through work ...
And what if I have a PO Box?

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Oooh score!

The only thing that makes me leave the country is work trips, which I now (thanks to the TSA's prying ways) always book through work. So such tickets won't be registered to whatever address I haven't got entered in the ID database!

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