Deary me Res,
How deluded you are.
The ID cards ARE GOOD FOR US, THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS, THEY WILL PROTECT US FROM TERRORISTS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
Except........
You DON'T HAVE TO WEAR THEM/HAVE THEM ON YOU...
so how can they be ID cards?
er... wait a minute...
They aren't replacing passports, so....
er...
hang on a second... what do they do?
Seeing as people can fake any kind of document passports and what not included, how can they be so sure they can't be forged? They can't.
So the new scheme run by our so called government, CAN be forged, unless they have more security than microsoft, the fbi and the cia put together.
But let's face it, nowhere is impenitrable (spelling)
Banning people's humour is a joke, literally.

As for why they are introducing the id cards...
(Here's the fun part)
When Labour won the vote the first time round, they agreed to join the EU and when they did that in 2000 they joined a scheme for ID cards for EVERYONE in EVERY country in the EU, (AKA BIG BROTHER).
The brits told Labour to fuck off, we don't want to be in the EU.
Thing is, labour have already invested millions of our pounds into the id cards.
And I'll bet, we are getting the id cards one way or another, seeing as the government can use the "government act" or whatever the heck its called, and force the change of law anyways.
Let's face it, they have already done it once, with fox hunting...
brb dinners arrived.