It's if all I want to do is go out for an old fashioned walk, or to lie on the beach or something casual like that, and I'm breaking the law if I don't carry my ID...that's not the freedom I grew up thinking we had protected in the war...

Blunkett was suggesting that a card would be the citizen's entitlement to all the things we are entitled to..benefit, pension, health and so on. We've got that sort of thing .. somewhere.

Penny