3 ms·

Is that for any particular reason? There has been a national identity register here since 400 years, so I might be a bit biased, but I never really saw a probl

• Symbiote 9y ago
  A feeling that other European countries with such a system abused them during WW2 etc, or an appeal to tradition and a feeling that British people should be free from such systems and not reduced to mere numbers.
  • kpil 9y ago
    It still says "subject" in your passport, regardless of if you have a number or not ;-) But yeah, I get parts of it. I remember that my granddad was always a bit miffed over the identity number he got, since he lived half his life without it. Before that the name and address was considered unique enough. But it's such a nifty system - we get all updated addresses automatically, and it improves the credit scoring processes so it's very easy to buy things online, etc.
    • Symbiote 9y ago
      It's said British Citizen since 1983. I live in Denmark, so I have a Danish "personnummer". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject