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According to government polls, actually, which had questions along the lines of 'Would you like to see terrorism and benefit fraud reduced by the introduction of ID cards?'. Ask the right question and you can claim anything but actually prove nothing at all.
I fully expect, as Graham says, that when people understood the full implications of a national database of 50 details per person being available to any State busybody, the bureaucratic burden on everyone to keep their details up to date on pain of fines and the distinct lack of any discernable benefit to the individual for the substantial extra cost public opinion will turn out to be against it. However, it'll be too late unless we stand up against it now.
Gogogo - it's 'Liberal Democrats', dear chap. Try to stop living in the past, you sound like a Conservative local election leaflet.