So, those of you in Manchester, will you be rushing to get an ID card ??

[clumsymum]

You will get the opportunity to get them first, in a pilot scheme.

It will cost you somewhere between £30-£60 I believe.

I can't see why choosing to have one will give a person that much advantage ...

I am puzzled as to why anyone would volunteer!

will i buggery! i would assume have to get 4 (me, dh and 2 kids), thats £120-£240!
i work in a pharmacy and i hope that we don't have to sell them.

Me too.

This morning on Today (Radio 4) there was a chap trying to convince everyone how much easier it would be to prove your identity. But 80% of people have a driving licence/passport/work ID card or summink, surely?

And I'm not convinced they won't be just as subject to forgery as any other document, when/if they have come into use

I think that it may be because Manchester has a relatively high proportion of British Nationals who may be hassled re. having to prove i.d. Also Labour stronghold so they just think everyone will roll over and take it

I don´t see what the problem is, [thicko emoticon]
Every other country in Europe has ID cards and I imagine many others around the world.
Here is Spain you have to show your ID card habitually, its the norm. Nobody feels threatened by doing this, they don´t feel its an intrusion on their civil liberties. When you pay for goods with a credit/debit card you have to show it. Why is that so wrong? Surely that can only be a good thing in the fight against cc fraud etc.
I certainly wouldn´t carry my passport around with me as a form of ID in case it was stolen, such a hassle to replace it not to mention the cost.

In other european countries ID cards are the norm but they are not tied to biometric identification parameters or an overarching database accessible to many agencies and individuals. My main problem with the scheme is the collection and centralisation of information - we dont have a good record on that in this country...

how on earth do they expect people to pay up to £60 for one of these?

If the scheme becomes national and its illegal not to have one, how can they possibly charge?