OK, so if they take away that necessity and you are not expected to care it around all the time, then you don't have a problem with it??
No, I still have a problem with it, for many reasons.
One, what data is to be gathered, held on the card, and who can access it, and under what circumstances? The government are still not answering this question.
Cost, why should I be forced to spend a couple of hundred pounds on something I don't want? Is that legal, the govt forcing £200 out of my hands?
Accuracy. The data will not be accurate. We do not a single repository for this data at present, and people will get new fake ID based on old fake ID, and there will have to be loopholes for people not registered at birth, so the system will be prone to abuse. The major abusers will be criminals, so it will not achieve it's goals of catching offenders. In fact, the system will be so unwieldly I doubt it will work. Recent goverment IT projects on similar lines have all been crashing failures. I don't see how thay can make this work.
By the way the police can ask you for identification right now for various reasons. There might be a crime comitted nearby etc.
Exactly, so an ID card need not be introduced. If the Police have 'reasonable grounds' to approach someone, then fair enough. Compelling people to carry a card, and giving Police the automatic right to interfere with an individual and ask to see the card must be refused.
If you are confused about the role of the Police, I suggest you go look up 'The Nine Principles of Policing' set down by Sir Robert Peel, father of the modern Police force. He foresaw a lot of the problems we face today with the Police and the Public, and set down these rules to try an avert them. The Police have suffered from 'function creep' and are in breach of these guidelines as we speak, and I would hate to see it go further, as it would question the validity of the whole organisation.