{UK} People 'can't wait for ID cards' (BBC)

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Jacqui Smith says public demand means people will be able to pre-register for an ID card within the next few months.

The cards will be available for all from 2012 but she said: "I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long."

The home secretary made the claim as she unveiled revised ID scheme plans.

Opposition parties say they would scrap the ID card scheme. The Tories call it a "complete waste of money". The Lib Dems call it a "laminated poll tax".

They accused Ms Smith of backtracking on plans to issue ID cards in 2009 for all airside workers, by announcing they would pilot them at just two airports.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7712275.stm

First few paras mostly concern airport workers; more general issues further down.

[BooScout]

1. I'm in the UK.....

Plain and simple........she's a liar.

[Blue_Tires]

2. yeesh...

apparently no one interviewed watched "The Last Enemy"

[ikri]

3. Bare faced liar

"I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long."

Probably the sales reps who are going to make a killing on selling a load of worthless electronics to the government.

They keep fudging the figures about ID card support too. Most polls have ID card support at about 40% with about the same against and 15% or so undecided.

Apparently the government polls look something like

When do you want ID cards:
a) Never
b) When hell freezes over

And they take the When hell freezes over answers as proof that people support the introduction of ID cards.

No one I have spoken to on any side of the political spectrum supports ID cards, absolutely no one.