Everyone in Europe and in fact every country I have ever visited has ID cards, why the bitching here? It's sensible and correct. I lived in Europe most of my adult life and have had ID cards, they are not an intrusion in any way into my life and one needs them to use credit cards etc. A good idea.

Helen, Marbella , Spain

Precisely why I published three Public Notices in the Manchester Evening News on 30 September 2008! To re-fuse orders from legal entities that do not cast a shadow. To all concerned, for and on the record, I, hereby refuse to be treated as a subject on a ship, I am a real moving party on LAND! - Freeman-on-the-Land

Nicolaas-Johannes:Joubert © , STOCKPORT, On Land

God I will vote for whoever scraps this terrible idea that isn't going to help fight terrorism one bit anyway.

Cate, Sheffield,

Why go to this expense when this government has so little time left and the conservatives say they will abandon ID cards.

Jim, Lincoln, UK

There's never a time when those "if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about" and "civil libertarian" trolls don't respond.
Poor de Menezes did nothing nothing wrong (they didn't check his ID), along with several other innocents over the years, but where are they now?

Padraig, Perth, Australia

In 2007, Blair said the police could:

"compare the fingerprints found at the scene of some 900,000 unsolved crimes against the information held on the register."

With a false match rate of 1 in 100,000 and 60 million on the register, everyone will match prints found at 9 of those crime scenes.

Brian Drury, London Colney, England

"Why does the card issued for `UK citizens` nedd to have the holder`s nationality on it?

Ozzy, Oldham, UK"

I think they are expecting civil servants to need to inspect them and understand what they are looking at...

Barney, London, UK

Complete waste of money - £4,700,000,000 it is costing us.

I hope the Conservatives drop it in 2010 when they get in. This kind of wastage is one of the key reasons they will get in.

Labour went seriously wrong along the way somewhere.

Adrian Cox, London, UK

Another waste of time effort and money, and we wounder why we can not get anothing done that matters any more!

MR W Jones, Liverpool, England

Another Labour cash black hole that will be to the detriment of our civilization. Here's an idea - invest the money in immigration controls, an effective coast-guard and border-police insteading of tagging innocent citizens like sheep. If this is enacted I am migrating. Enough is enough.

James, Newcastle,

Am I the only one who thinks this might be a good idea? I'm not bothered about having one as i'm not up to anything dodgy, many other countries have them. Pubs and shops could make it mandatory to produce them to buy age restricted products and could help with benefit fraud and illegal immigrants...

Suzanne, Newcastle, UK

I am a citizen of Great Britain, not a subject of the United Kingdom. Stuff teh crest!

Ol Rappaport, London, GB

What about EU members, they should also have id card. There are a lot of people who enter the uk with false EU documents.

Taryn, reading, berkhsire

More waste of our money and clamping down on personal freedoms, I have nothing to hide but Britain is already the most watched nation (we are captured on CCTV more than anywhere else in the world) just Google "most watched nation" and so why should we be forced to give up even more personal freedom!

daniel, St. Albans, UK

Looks like im goin prison when they are given out as compulsery to all citizens as i refuse to give DNA, iris scans and finger prints.

Prints are taken from criminals and i am not one!!!!

Dave, Leicester, UNITED kingdom

So - when I carry a utility bill (which is an honoured form of ID in the UK), which I have just obtained from the dustbins behind No10 Downing Street in London, who is going to prove that I am not a UK citizen – I have my utility bill on me.
Once again, a typical fiasco – by courtesy of MacDome

harryRome, London,

They have had identity cards in Germany for years and have never had any trouble with them.

If you don't do any thing wrong then you don't have anything to worry about do you??

Lyle Nelson, Red Wing,, usa

These will be knocked out for a tenner within twenty four hours allowing people to prove who they are not.

Jeff, Newport, UK

You can already find them on ebay.

Farrukh, Woking,

I know you're all dead against the ID card, but I am desperate for one. I have lived abroad all my adult life and am sick and tired of having to carry my passport to prove my identity. What's more, EU nationals don't even need a passport to travel within the EU. I would prefer a card to a passport.

Stuart, Motril, Spain

We have had ID cards for ages in Spain. It's handy and we can use it to travel to certain countries (EU+US) without a passport. We still haven't been "sold out by our government".

I reckon the next step is to make the drivers license and health card incorporated into

Why is everyone so paranoid?

Hitesh, Madrid, Spain

Another huge nail in the coffin of Democracy.

When will these old Socialists learn. You simply cannot oppress people for ever. The sheer waste, cost. and deprivation of our freedoms is mind bloggling. How do they get away with it ?

Tom Collins, Stansted Mountfitchet, U.K.

The price of fear is lost freedom.

Every day, a little bit more like Stalin's vision.

Too late to object to this, by the time the police are saying "Papieren, bitte" sorry, "Papers, please"

W Smith, Manchester,

What if you dont drive? and, do you carry your passport to tescos?

Jean Belmondo, London, UK

what aload of rubbish, this country is getting worse and worse....soon Citizens of the UK will have to carry ID! what has this country come to??

Nicki, Oxford, UK

I will not carry an ID card.
I will go to prison instead.

Papers....... "Rouse, Rouse, Schnell Schnell!",

Got it , good !

CW, Corby, UK

ozzy. because in order to use the card to travel within europe, your nationality and identity must be provided. failure to provide your national identity may result in you being refused entry.

elfed, feltham, uk

Nice, £30 for foreign nationals and £100 for UK Citizens. Nice to see the indiginous population of the UK being treated fairly again.

This is an Identity Tax and nothing more. We don't need this. It will not reduce crime, illegal immigrants, Terrorism threats etc but it will bring money for Brown.

Adrian Jones, Whitehill, UK

I am a chinese.In my opinion,your new ID cards are more beautiful than ours.

Rita, leshan, China

This Government truly makes Orwell's 1984 seem an impending reality. Heaven help us all.

John Szepietowski, Weybridge, UK

This is all part of the government gaining more control, illegal immigrants get fake documents anyway. The government are trying to get more info and control. Then it will be the RFID chip. Every car journey is tracked google searches kept for 9 months. CCTV everywhere, no privacy!!! infowars.com

Concerned Man, Penge,

hisss Boooooo. to the white elephant of ID cards. they are downright unEnglish and and will alienate the people even more if that is possible. its just another Home Office closet fascists' idea

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

How come foreigners get all the good deals? Apparently you can use them instead of a passport but they're only going to cost £30, and not the £70 a passport costs. Why can't we all get one now? The £40 difference is a lot of money to me and my passport's about to expire.

Mike, London, UK

The introduction of ID Cards is Sinister.
New Labour are really a political party to be afraid of.
They have done far more to undermine civil liberties than any other party in living memory.

Stephen Holmes, Withington, UK

In the current economic situation, how can the Government still be happy to waste money on this. Also there should be a vote, but there won't be because they know the public will vote against the sceme.

Brian, Copplestone, Devon

So if you leave your ID card at home, how is anyone meant to know you are supposed to be carrying one?
Other waste of money by the idiots in charge. Whats next exploding neck collars for people who dont pay their council tax?

ML, London, UK

It's truly incredible how long its taken the UK to catch up with the rest of the EU with ID cards amid a plethora of scaremongering and misinformation. ID cards are the citizens friend, they help prevent ID theft and fraud, streamline bureaucracy, and save taxpayers money.

Simon , London, UK

I live in a EU country where I have had an ID card for the last 40 years. It helps in all administrative matters. What if a person does not have a driver's license in the UK ? Apparently to open a bank account you just have to declare that you live at such and such address and show proof by what ?

watts, brussels, belgium

Is Labour trying to lose the next election or are they just thick? People think having a driving licence and a passport is ID enough but still they press on with foisting this snoop card on us and at a time when we are all feeling the pinch propose slugging us £30 each for one. Priceless.

Philip Fielding, Lancashire, UK

I must say S Sample is quite a nicelooking girl.
Are there more like her around?

Brian P O Cinneide, eThekwini, Afrika Borwa

The cost of legally living in the UK as a foreign national is already astronomical, particularly the cost of long-term or permanent visas - completely disproportionate to the cost of processing both in time and money, but the waiting time for return of documents from the Home Office gets longer.

Dontdaresay, London, UK

Quite happy to have one if I can choose where I have the Eagle and Swastika positioned.

Howard, Willenhall, West Midlands

If memory serves - we used to do a lot in the army on a voluntary basis - Two fingers - very apt !

Wills, Soton, UK

Another absolute waste of taxpayers' money, this time on a gigantic scale.
Labour will be voted out at the next General Election and hopefully the Conservatives will bin this nasty piece of statist control freakery

R.McGeddon, London, England

It's obvious where this is heading. While ID cards might not be compulsory for UK citizens, we'll end up with it being quite disadvantageous not to have one. ID cards will become a practical requirement for many ordinary jobs, as New Labour continue building their police state, one step at a time.

Simon, Brentwood, UK

Nice to see the threat of the so called Foreigners is only worth £30 and contains less information...
However, if you're a national you have to pay more, contains a lot more data. Surely if it replaces paper they ought to be priced about the same?
Kinda asks the question who does Britain fear most

Anton Dabo, Barcelona, Spain

They can go and jump before I have a card. This is a gross violation of my civil liberties.

Keith, Grantham,

This is so obviously an pre-runner to a EU id card, not a UK id card. No union jack, the letters 'UK' are bearly visible. I support a UK id card and I believe most people would if it was a card that celebrated and prooved our status as Britich citizens while protecting our public services from abuse

Stuart, Kent, UK

This will only benefit us if we then have to finger print all signed documents, therefore ID fraud will become a thing of the past, as a simple finger print analysis will show that you did not infact sign for a huge loan, or open a bank account, or take out a credit card, or...

Graeme, Edinburgh,

Pick up your forged copy from any Eastern European gang at a street corner near you soon.. Another money making opportunity given to organised crime to exploit by this criminal government.

Edward, London,

With at least three Million British People unemployed, there should not be any foreign nationals entering the country.

Clive Burghard, Lancing, ENGLAND

And I suppose the tax payer will foot the bill for those with little or no income like the elderly, the unemployed, Single mums, asylum seekers etc etc

Why should I pay for myself or anyone else this government caused the terrorist problem by invading other nations. Let them Pay for it or DUMP it!

Mick Reilly, Doncaster, England

Labour the party that listens or so it claims - Well is obviously hasn't listened to the ordinary citizen who resoundingly said NO to this rampant waste of money. If the Home Secretary wants us to have id cards then she can pay for them out of her vast salary.

stev, Manchester,

You'll see me in prison before I'll carry one of those fascist instruments of monitoring and control around with me.
Get stuffed labour

Phill, The Wirral, England

I'm sick of human rights. what about my traditional ENGLISH rights and freedoms that Zanulabour, led by the nose by the nest closet Fascists that hides in the Home Office, is hell bent on taking away from us

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

Do they think that the illegals are just going to go home when they cant access employment & public funds? No they will stay and turn to crime! Round them up and ship them home.

Gavin, Darwen, Lancashire

The "I've got nothing to hide" lot will sing from another hymn sheet when their finances,purchases, etc. are all ravelled up in this -if it happens.Go to the pub, present your card, get your ration of drink - same for obese-making food no doubt.To Hell with ID cards and Gordon Brown

Peter, Suffolk,

Labour are supposed to be listening obviously people requests for no ID cards have fallen on deaf ears again! Can we have our EU referendum as well please or are you just going to ignore us again?
Labour = Ignorance + punative tax policies + lax immigration policy + no fiscal control

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

well what kind of gurrantte that the data of id card will not loosea again like previous recor of the goverment loosing data every month. how we can assure of our own priviousy

ben, london,

My wife, my children, and I all carried identity cards the twenty years I was in the Service. I carried a company identity card for the following two decades of post- retirement civilian work. I cannot understand the concerns voiced so widely about this, other than possibly fear of the unknown.

Dennis Eagan, Colorado Springs, US

-->Russ,

I'll do the same with mine.
ID cards were tools of control in nazi occupied countries and in communist countries or in special circumstances(war) in west countries. I've always admired the UK citizens for their tradition of freedom. Don't change it!

Zbig, Polish one, Glasgow,

Of course as you are Subjects of Her Majesty (as well as being citizens), so doesn't that mean you have to do what you are told ad take accept your ID cards

Adrian, Fremont, USA

Here's a prediction.

1. Some illegal immigrants will claim to be UK citizens, so as to explain their lack of ID cards.

2. The government will say this "loophole" must be closed, and therefore compulsory ID cards for all UK citizens are necessary.

3. This is New Labour's plan all along.

Simon, Brentwood, UK

We are just talking about ID card, what about those who have been in this country for over five years and still do not qualify for ID card, so will they be granted amnesty to stay in the UK?

Victor, London,

I have a big problem with this and am heartened to read that many British citizens are also concerned.
Having an ID card is not a big deal, but one which stores biometric data on it is. I had my wallet stolen 2 days ago, they took my bank cards, would my biometric ID card be worth more? Scary stuff

Emma, London,

If they have any Queries about your identity, they can have a police officer there to verify your identity with previous addresses/any interactions with police(they are all recorded) to confirm your identity.
it puts more people into work to support, more the better, with the economic crisis atm.

simon, norwich,

Try as I might to get worked up over this, I can't. I really do not see a problem with it. We have passports, we have other forms of identification. Why not have something that will identify us as British citizens?What exactly is the problem?

Afteral, most countries around the world have ID cards

kim, london,

So how long until someone's identity is stolen? I give it till christmas.

Richard, Ivybridge,

"If so then this is the worst form of discrimination.They are dividing people into two group Kamran Mahmood"

That's because there are 2 groups. And nothing wrong "discriminating" about that. Immigration needs policing and this is a good start. The UK has been too soft on this and its been abused.

Joe, Manchester,

As a legally resident foreign national I am fed up with having to shell out yet more cash every time the Home Office moves the goalposts. This card will NOT curb illegal immigration, but it lets Jacqui Smith milk yet more easy money out of those of us who live responsibly above the radar.

Heather, Glasgow,

ID cards must be universally compulsory or they are pointless -obviously. I shall DEFY any law making the compulsory. I am a freeborn English gentleman and I will be DAMNED if I prove my identity to anyone I live in a small town and everyone knows who I am.

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

My wife is a Japanese national who has livedin the UK for 9 years and will be required to carry this. We will be putting a pair ofg scissors straight through it on arrival and I hope everyone out there does the same. Time for the British public to simply say NO to this card, before we all have them.

Russ, Benfleet,

Why should I have to pay upwards of £100 to have this ball & chain imposed on me by people I have never voted for and never will. If this government want them issued to every person
they should foot the bill - silly me, taxes would be raised to pay for them. The whole system stinks !

Martin Briggs, Heversham, England

Why should we have to pay for something the government insist we have. In Thailand, a much poorer country by our standards, ID cards are given out free and can be updated at some supermarkets. A GB driving license or Passport is all that should be required for ID purposes.

Graham, Bournemouth, UK

Evil will be done in Labours name every where, the only way to defeat Evil is not to walk on by the 50% of the country that has stopped voting needs to start voting, even if you elect the monster raving loons!

MR W Jones, Liverpool, England

This is frightening - this government are the new breed of Stasi - in a minute we will be spying on our neighbours while they go to work!


This government must be stopped - not only is it unconstitutional, but i feel that ID cards could be a breach of human rights!

Philip Partridge, Plymouth, UK

Everyone has something to hide. The point is the card security will be cracked just like you credit card and pin number were. Link the card to your mobile phone account, then the government has more information about me than I want them to have. The big picture is, this is big brother.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

Nu Labour is history. Hell will freeze over before anyone in my family allows their personal information to be stored on the national ID card database.

Dave, Newcastle,

Jaqui can laugh about these cards, she and they will be gone in a couple of years and if they are introduced before the election I also will refuse.

Satnam Singh, kettering,

The sooner Brown and his looney Government are kicked out of office the better. To claim that ID cards will help make the country more secure is nonesence while over 1,000,000 EU citizens who have come here over the past two years are not required to have them.

George, Weston-super-Mare, UK

Why do you think all these camps in France are crawling with certain people all trying to get into England Whenever they are question they say I want to go to England
no papers and house provided and other benefits. Grow up England and start to realise you are living in the real world.

Baz, Christchurch,

For the past 11 years our freedoms and democracy have been destroyed by New Labour. More importantly, if you studied recent history, you can make a 95% parallel between modern UK and the 1930's Nazi government. We have learnt NOTHING from history, and it's why we're repeating our own destruction.

Anja.S, London, England

All I can say is it's been a long time coming, I have had an ID card of some sort for most of my life, it's never affected me adversly. I now live outside the UK but in the EU, and I have to havemy passport on me all of the time, an ID card (like the rest of Europe) It would be easier to carry

Ralph Small, Aguilas,, Spain

I feel this is stupid, something that we will be FORCED to have at some point but we have to pay for it?
If they want us to have them they should pay, I think it is very stupid indeed.

Sam, Hereford,

Excellent, at last. We all carry forms of identity so why not a national identity system.

Mike, Sole Street, England

So you have to be born in either England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland in order to have a symbol on your card? I was born in England, but my parents weren't. Wonder if I'll get a symbol. If there were a catastrophic humanitarian incident, this would be a good way of cherry picking the survivors!

Max, London, England

Please Listen Put The Lot In The Dustbin,they Have Probably Been Cracked Already,If The Same Company Made Them That Lost Data God Help Us,I Know Who I Am,I Dont Need To Be Lumped In With Illegal Immigrants,NO THANK YOU.

Thomas, Surbiton, uk

I will never carry one, regardless of any future legislation. Smith is nuts just like the rest of this tired Labour government.

Ben, London, UK

It does feel a bit like a stigmatisation of "foreign nationals", I must say...

Cat, Midlands, UK

An amazing inconsistency is that to apply for UK citizenship there is no procedure for an interview: you apply by post and mths later the British passport arrives. The downside is that your loose your existing pp for months. If interviews needed for identity cards, why not for pps?

Stan Gallagher, London, UK

more sleepwalking toward the police state.keep giving up your freedoms .wait and see.they will be compulsory in time or knitted in with some kind of status based benefits.if you dont resist now you walk further to your oblivion.fight starts now.our government has more than enough control already.V

jim, bristol, avon

Fortunately this nutcase government w ill be gone in a couple of years so this scheme won't be going anywhere.

Albert Hall, kettering,

If this card definitively identifies a person as a temporary resident citizen etc then it is of some value as there are far far to many illegals in Britain at the present time, something needs to be done to address forged documents etc. Britain cannot afford to do less.

Peter, Vancouver BC., Canada

For those who are in favour of these cards, go to CiF and read Don1 at Sep 25 08, 11:03pm on Nick Clegg's thread. And then consider you will have to pay 100GBP EACH for these cards. Still think they are for your benefit? Suckers.

Jonathan, Southend,

why should I, a free-born Englishman,have to prove who I am? I''l be damned if I get an ID card I flat out REFUSE. it's unEnglish

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

I welcome this scheme if it is to prevent fraud or terrorism or arternative of a passport but everyone in UK should have been under this scheme, not just only a foreign student or a foreign national.If so then this is the worst form of discrimination.They are dividing people into two group.

Kamran Mahmood, oxford,

I have just emigrated to the us and id cards are useful here, but they cost $20 dollars, which is about a tenner, and they are optional, your old government is ripping you off!! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, it does not cost 93 pounds to print one of these.

nick bacon, New york, USA

These people who say I have nothing to hide and have no problem with it are so naive. That is exactly how totalitarian power comes about, by pretending to target someone else, then before you know it you are the target and it is too late. This country is worse than a communist police state. Disgrace

John Morgan, Old Stratford, UK

I.D cards should be resented because it is another way of the Government keeping us all under complete control. There is that and also the fact that the people in positions of power want the UK citizen to pay for their further erosion of personal freedom. Nobody agrees but it is still introduced.

Matt, Kirkcaldy, Scotland

NO, NO, NO
It's one more small step towards a totalitarian state.
I am English; I am proud, and I am a free man.

Dave, Stafford, Staffs

I wonder how long before these ID cards are counterfeited and cheaper than the real thing?

John, London, England

I think its about time.
Lets try to prevent identity fraud.
I have no problem with it. I have nothing to hide.

Ali, UK,

"For terrorists or illegal immigrants we will at least have some way to identify them."

I suppose you think that burglars walk round in black & white stripey outfits, with a beret and eye mask too?

w smith, manchester,

These cards will achieve none of the goals they are designed for. They are fundamentally the same as exsisting work VISAs or documentation of identity, simply because one is always able to falsify or ignore.

Terrorism and crime are spices to make ID cards palatable.

I will throw mine in the bin.

William, Derby, UK

And which govt department is going to check that I am actually who I say I am when I have to apply for my identity card?
More to the point, how is a check going to be made on foreign born people that they are who they say they are?

John Hitchcock, Northampton, England

Even if these cards do become compulsory i will not be accepting one no matter what the consequences of fines or jail terms. I will not subscribe to an insecure technology that holds any further details for the government to lose or worse have my identity cloned.

Stuart, Airdire,

So if you are a foreigner asked by the police for your UK ID, you reply that you are a British citizen! I have lived overseas for 40 years in many countries and always had a local ID. I have never been stopped, and one must wonder whether statistically an ID is very useful. Or is it I look honest?

Brian Lewis, Manila, Philippines

Anyone care to start a pool on how long it will take them to lose all the personal data reprinted in these cards? I've got a tenner on 11 months.

John Louis Swaine, Colchester, United Kingdom

It seems the Govt are taking Orwell as an inspiration rather than the stark warning it was.

Stella Rimington (former head of MI5) allegedly said it will make no difference. As such, we're paying for yet another pointless "anti-terrorism" scheme which denigrates rather than protect our freedoms.

Matt, UK,

A good effort. Let's hope for the best. This should at least weed out illegal immigrants.

Ramesh Parida, Delhi, India

Awesome. Everyday I find another reason why I am so pleased I have left the UK. Govt failure, increasing surveillance state, banks not to be trusted. Do you really want the UK to have the highest borrowing Govt borrowing rates, the most CCTV cams, the most non-Commie State intrusion? Really?

Oliver Wrathall, Normanton, Australia

I really don't have a problem with ID cards. I've lived in China and the proposals are similar to registration requirements of foreigners there. I also think that ID cards should be compulsory for all Brits. But the "civil liberties" brigades will balk. Its worth it to live in a safer society.

Mike, Nottingham, UK

In the interests of not offending the people who are responsible for this card being necessary in the first place, the most important information will be missing: religion.

Antonio, Estepona, Spain

If they cut fraud and crime then lets have them! All the human rights brigade forget that criminals and terrorists don't care about other people's human rights.

Luke, London, UK

For foreigners a 30 pound charge...for us Brits 100 pounds..

When Browns kicked out there will be street parties in the UK

Dave, Lincoln,

Sounds a bit like Nazi Germany. Are they going to issue armbands and stars too?

Chantel, Wals,

Legislation making it compulsory for all to carry them will be with us soon.
Then the state will gradually add driving licenses, passports and bank details making these obsolete.
And eventually a transmitter, so the state will know where you are at any given time.
Enjoy your freedom while it lasts.

G Orwell, London, UK

In principle,I have no objection to ID cards but are they fraud-proof,cost-effective,proven for their terrorism-thwarting potential and immediately cancellable, like credit cards,if they are lost or stolen ?

Too many unanswered questions, madam Home Secretary.
Please answer ASAP.

Abdul Jaleel, Darlington, United Kingdom

There is anbsolutely no need for these draconian ID Cards
I hope that as and when a Conservative Government is elected they keep their promise and scrap these dreadful cards.
New Labour should be renamed the Sinister Party!

Stephen Holmes, Withington, UK

I've no objection to card in principle but if the Gov'ment want me to have a card they can GIVE it to me. Why should I pay £93 for am ID card when my Passport or Driving Licence does the same job!!

Ginge, Aldershot, England

A GREAT idea. The British have had driving licences for years - all giving our name, address and date of birth. When applying for them we also gave our place of birth. For us there is no real difference. For terrorists or illegal immigrants we will at least have some way to identify them.

David Bradbury, Sidmouth, England

Another pointless Labour waste of our money, to go with all the others.

David, St Albans, UK

I have no problem with an id card as i have nothing to hide!! Don't drive so this will make it easier to produce id for me! My mother has no passport and doesn't drive so this will be very useful for her too! In this time of acute terrorism we need this simple but effective defence mechanism...

Julie Woodward, Stroud, Glos

what a waste of money why not put the money to good use instead of this ridiculous idea

wayne longley, slough, berks

Fingerprinting everyone... they say it wont be compulsory but wait till you want to get some services and sooner or later, you'll be forced to buy one. Hello Big Brother.

Mrs Baxter, Vienna, Austria

They picked the weakest part of UK popultation for their experiment; the immigrants. They will not say anything but obey the orders of ministers. This this the wrost discrimination that ever done in mankind history. Take the voting right off the commonwealth citizens. Coz next election is very soon

Joseph, London,

£4.7bn for 6 centres? What do I do if I live in Norwich? Travel all the way to Croydon or Sheffield for the privelege of paying £95 plus travel costs?

Does a 16 year old have to pay £95? That's three weeks EMA (if they ever got it).

EPIC FAIL!

ian, Edinburgh, Scotland

the question

Why does the card issued for `UK citizens` nedd to have the holder`s nationality on it?

is easy to answer

not every UK citizen is of British nationality

pat , lincs,

A very ugly looking card - hopefully the Conservatives will win the next election so we won't have to fork out for this - surely a driving license and passport is all that is necessary for identity purposes?

Dan , Winchester, England

In Turkey we have Id cards, but over here we have our licence to prove our identity.It is a good idea for foreigners to have but i dont understand why uk citizens need to have the Id card i think it will be a waste of money for both us and the government.

swarovski, enfield, london

So people will only have to pay £30 to have their personal information sold to the highest bidder, or more likely just lost somewhere!

David Leslie, Perth, Scotland

You state "handed out" to this sector. Does that mean they won't have to pay the projected £93 each demanded from nationals?
If so then this is the worst form of discrimination.

A.M. Williams, Stafford,

Why does the card issued for `UK citizens` nedd to have the holder`s nationality on it?

Ozzy, Oldham, UK