"You would say that, wouldn't you, coming from where you do politically Mike - after all - it couldn't happen here - and nobody would dare to try foisting identification papers on all of us, would they!!!"
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WHY 'would' I? Don't follow your reasoning at all.

ID papers? -- so what if? No big deal to one of my generation. We all carried them around with us during WWii & nobody died of it so far as I recall. I've told on here before of the visit of the King & Queen to my N London school to inspect the damage when it got bombed in the Blitz in 1940 (I got months off school -- ill wind, innit eh!?). First thing Their Majesties did on arrival was formally to produce their National Registration Identity Cards for the inspection of the Mayor of Hendon who was ic the proceedings. I've still got my NRIC somewhere. Just a harmless light cardboard souvenir of my early life. It hasn't ever yet burst into flames and burned the house down.

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