What an ungrateful lot the British are. Your government has bent over backwards to eliminate all the rights and freedoms you once enjoyed and to replace them with cameras to watch your every move - all to protect you - and all you do is complain.

David Masu, Zürich, Switzerland

Do we not have the option of mass refusal to participate.
This would throw the system into an unworkable mess.
Travel companies and others dependent upon the document would soon have to call for it to be abolished in order for them to continue in business.

Bob Lomas, Whaley Bridge, England

Yesterday, Jacqui Smith was still claiming that the majority of the population support the introduction of ID cards. Methinks Jacqui Smith is telling porkies.

Dave, Newcastle,

Sometimes, students are truly positvely amazing - in this case they are at least fortunate to have a say on the issue whether or not the government cares to agree. It seems the opinion of students on this subject is a good sign for the future - good luck to them and please, goodbye to Jacqui Smith.

Howard, London, UK

I’m a 22 year old, university educated professional. If they introduce ID cards and national database I’m voting with my feet. Let Mr. Brown generate some tax revenue for a change.

Tikhon Savrasov, london,

last thing I will do in this country will be take delivery of an ID card ... then its off to the airport (if leaving is still legal in the Monitored Workers Playground of Great Labourland). NO 2 ID!

Geo, Glasgow, Still the Uk

I have a cheaper, more reliable alternative.

Why not just tattoo a serial number on everyones forearm?

David Turner, Leeds, England

Hopefully the Conservatives (or somebody) will get in in time to scupper this ID rubbish New Labour need to keep its old Stalinist eye on the public.

Roger Lorton, Nongprue, Thailand

Of course Spain, the only country to have made ID cards compulsory, have had no problems whatsoever with their own home-grown ETA terrorists.

Jacinta, London, UK

I think it is dangerous for Orwell's 1984 to still be a standard text in secondary schools. It infects young people with the wrong ideas. It should be taken out of the libraries and burned along with that seditious book by Bradbury.

William Haines, Northwood,

Oh for heavens sake not Spain ID again! The UK scheme is NOT AN ID CARD. It is a massive, tracking database, that contains massive amounts of data they want but don't NEED, and you are criminally liable if 1item (Any item) is even accidentally out of date. It is NOT an ID card scheme. It never was.

George Edwards, Beijing, China

Spain may have ID cards now, Felix, but that hasn't always been the case. They were imposed on your country by the Fascist dictator, General Franco.

Well, the British people have beaten the forces of tyranny and totalitarianism before.

A. J. Moss, Spalding, England

Come write about me and I will check out this site because the declaration of human rights says nothing about ID cards and everything about habeous corpus, freedom of holiday, work, and at the end of the world we'll be sorry we didn't adopt an international card for trading our CO2 like Airmiles!

Ben Samuel, Hendon, London

ID's, in spain i see the use of them, and there is no privacy infringment or anything. It helps identify people in cases where the card holder is unresponsive (comatose, fainted, death...)
Oh, and Roger, grow up...

Felix, Madrid, Spain

The Labour Party's version of the Poll Tax debacle.
You know, it's almost painful to watch an organisation hell bent on political suicide; if it wasn't the labour party, I'd almost feel sorry for them.
ID cards - one more reason to kick this administration to the dogs! "Back to School Jackie!!

Keith, Hythe, G.B.

I have a buddy that is very adept at politics and he swears that the U.K. is the control center for the New World Order, who's goal is the destruction of nationalist western nations for some greater aim, mainly to enslave the west to a central authority. Having read that England spies on its own....

Bobby, Long Beach, U.S.

Say no to the unfree ID. I will never take it willingly and civil war will begin even if you think you have taken all our arms and ability to rebel to kick you traitors out! The young today hav awoken because of the net, which BB did not realise would be a freedom tool for us the youth today, too learn the truth and the lies our dumb down parents were fed to vote us into the EU lie.



I'm on a course in Sweden right now, were they have an ID system,but its backed by much more stringent rules, than we would have in Britain! If Britain gets it, then it would be an abused nightmare! However in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia its popularity has faded, and is only used when forced, because of the rampant ID theft and big brother abuse!



Swedes now have fast check outs at supermarkets and stores now, because credit cards and ID's have lost favour and Swedes have gone, and are going back to cash! Its safer and faster and private. ID's, speed camera's to steal from us and stress us to death, licenses for owning a fishing rod,or having to register how many knives you have at home is Commie-Zionist run Britain's GOV style, they want us as low IQ Tax slaves that's why immigration is key,first they have us say have less children then they say lets bring in more plus IVF of non westerners to out breed us! too have us lower our IQ via miscegenation ethnic cleansing by default and their NWO hell...Yes and I agree with the other poster NULabour has taken George Orwell's 1984 as their rule book!And forgot that it was a nightmare scenario!



Taking away trial by jury and Habeous Corpse and the time you can be held is more 1984 ****.



Poisoning us with flouride in the water the Nazi's did that which is short for National Socialist to subdue and make placid concentration camp inmates.MSG in the food to make us hyperactive with lower IQ potential GMO to make us ill and destroy the ECO system and to tax and control all food from source by not allowing farmers to keep seed.Taxing CO2 saying its a poison when its a buiding block of life that means its a tax on breathing! (They could have fought real polution! But oh no, no tax there!) Never mind the other multitude of crimes these trecherous political crimminals do! Yeah the west is trying to implament their NWO order,they want us to be a tracked tax slave from cradle to grave. Resign Jaqui and take the gov with you, and trash that evil big Brother nightmare on the way out.

roger, Cheshire, UK

Get over it. You're not citizens, you're subjects. Take the ID card and be grateful. Enjoy your surveillance society.

Ed, Pensacola,

ID cards and moving on to microchips are the lock in to the system..that at the moment has a loophole...
you have remedy without showing ID ... the government can only charge /discharge the person ..it is the person that has the ID ..not the human being ..

you tube ...bursting bubbles of government

Kay, surrey , uk

How much control they will have when you WILL have your ID card, A person wants to go for a few beers but before you buy your beer you need to swipe your card, after 5-6 beers your card tells you you had your fill please go home, total control, maybe not in 5 yrs but look in 15-20 yrs time."sheep"

patrick courtney, cork, Ireland

And the times when an ID is not producible?
Well let`s make that an offence
and detain the individual-stop searches would be a great way to promote state law and order and fiddle the crime statistics at the same time!
It`s already being done in Japan to demonise the foreign population.

Christophe, Osaka, Japan

Its like the old saying divide and conquer the brits get the job of the id card system the Irish got the smoking ban to introduce the French had some new work law to introduce more than likely all EU/US programs whats around the corner.

patrick courtney, cork, Ireland

Thank goodness these people are standing up for a free world. Of course 'at first' you won't need an ID card to perfom everyday tasks, but you will one day. And, then of course - we can do away with ID cards because microchips at birth would be a much better way of monitoring the sheep.

winnie, london, uk

Ray Poynter, we don't want your Big Brother b/s ID Card! Nobody in the world does! Find another job...

Matt, Brisbane, Australia

No-one believes that the Home Office, and Jacqui Smith, will take any notice of the results of My Life My ID. They've ignored all other feedback on the NIR and ID cards, Why should we expect them to start listening to the public now? ID cards are neither wanted nor needed, except by Smith and Co.

Simon Evans, Crockett, California

Students aren't stupid! They've sharply voiced what everyone's thinking regarding the cards AND cut straight through the political spin surrounding them. Nice try...

Eleanor, Yorkshire,

I'm an Admin on mylifemyid & a Director of Virtual Surveys, who are running it.

Your article is silent on the merits of the approach. Normal research is a very closed, command and control process. This is highly inclusive & open. Surely this is a move in the right direction?

Ray Poynter, Nottingham, UK