[heero_yuy]

Trust is a big issue. When El Gov were thinking about a national ID card there was going to be all sorts of data and databases attached to it including medical records and bio-metrics.

Then there was the list of those who would have access to all that data and it was just about every man and his dog in government employ.

The temptation to capitalise that data would be too tempting for most governments.

I'm sure that a voter ID card would be subject to "mission creep" as more parts of government would be wanting to use it for checking other forms of entitlement such as benefits and NHS treatment.