On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 at 14:56:01, Mike Collins wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

Didn't the UK fight a major war about 65 years ago so that British citizens
did not find themselves subject to arbitrary demands in the streets and in
their homes for "Papieren, bitte!"?

During that war all and for years afterwards all British citizens
carried ID cards.
I still have mine. The war was against Fascism not ID cards.

And it was excessive arbitrary demands to see them by petty bureaucrats,
that led to their abolition in the early 50's.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)