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I think it was when the wartime id cards where up for renewal the civil service wanted it - but parliament thought it smacked to much of "Gestapo" as Churchill

I think it was when the wartime id cards where up for renewal the civil service wanted it - but parliament thought it smacked to much of "Gestapo" as Churchill put it.

dfawcus 8y ago
It was killed by a Motorist refusing to present an ID card to the police, and the resultant court case. That is what lead to Parliament being "forced" to scrap them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3129302.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3129302.stm a bit more detail here: http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/identity-cards-in-britain-past-experience-and-policy-implications http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/identit...
- C1sc0cat 8y ago
  Interesting I did not know that