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Originally posted by Dave Stones
<snip>have to say the ID card thing is a good idea in principle though, if driving licence passport etc ever becomes replaced by one piece of plastic, i will be a happy bunny 
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I was a happy bunny when I learned that the new driving licence would be a photo card. 'Great', I thought, 'no more carrying round that big piece of paper, and it'll be good for proving who I am as well'. Of course, I was cheezed in the extreme to discover that the new driving licence is in fact a photo card
and a paper licence, and that the licence is not technically complete unless you are carrying them both. Any jobsworth copper could refuse to accept your photocard as proof of anything unless you're carrying the paper counterpart as well.
So I have to say I am not at all confident that any bureaucrat can devise a scheme that is genuinely convenient for users. The civil service mindset just doesn't work like that.