OK, if they really want ID cards, this is my best use for them.
When someone is next talking to a politician who is so pushing ID cards, will they please ask him/her the following?
If ID cards are so secure and information so easy to handle do we now not have the technology for a true democracy where each citizens right to vote on individual parliamentary matters can handled by using a national electronic voting mechanism.
Then we can keep the parliamentary manager; and perhaps the odd minister but hopefully make the most of them redundant.