The added bonus is we all have to pay for the damned thing. It's a major **** up by a blundering idiot of a home secretary. He is a bully by nature and thinks he can steamroller his half baked ideas through without a whimper.
They probably would have got away with it if they announced a smart card that would combine passport, driving license, even credit cards etc. That would have saved costs, and people wouldn't have seen much difference.
The fact that the government are changing the way society functions by effectivley making people it's inventory, would probably not been questioned.
I refuse to accept the state owns me, and I will join in refusing a card. I will have a long wait though, as I don't need to renew my passport for 9 years! Of course this phasing in of the card makes it easier to bully the people INTO phpbb_taking it, divide and conquer always does!
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