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Same reason there was so much opposition to ID cards. There's a real "civil liberties" streak amongst Anglos that you often don't see elsewhere. There are benefits to this (access to the health services is much easier here than other places) and negatives (it becomes the duty of individuals to prove things rather than the state's duty to keep records of them).
What good reasons?
But yes agreed it's due to doing this afterwards. Still 100 million got used for a no deal Brexit campaign, and they didn't bother posting a letter about this to all UK addresses.