EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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hoefla in reply to @ReekBlefs

However those cards would've enabled quite a lot of the nonsense that Farage and his ilk talked, especially the stuff about 'open borders' and 'not knowing who's here' and so on, to be challenged effectively.

Would they though? Wouldn't the implementation of ID cards have been just as incompetently handled as settled status and everything else. I think a lot of the resistance was because people did not trust that they wouldn't be mis-used by government, but also because they didn't trust that they wouldn't become some public-private commercial interests nightmare. Anglo civil liberties or not, there would be a lot less issue if people thought it would be done competently in a carefully limited capacity.

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christianSpaceman in reply to @hoefla

They (Farage etc) would just have insisted that the ID cards only told you who that person was - verified / sponsored by the govt. That they didn't confer or confirm citizenship.

They might have been right - I can't remember originally whether they were meant to say any more than ID of the holder.

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