Reply #130: Jack, the UK has no picture IDs at all. The driver's license is a piece of [View All]

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paper you fold four times and which has no photo -- and a lot of people don't have them. Now that you don't need a passport to travel in Europe, fewer people probably have one.

I don't know all the details about the national ID (and I doubt that anyone can ask you for it anytime) but I suspect that if in the US if most people didn't have drivers license, we do SOMETHING to make sure most people had photo IDs.

How many times are you asked for your dirvers license as ID? Does it bother you when you are? Probably not. Well imagine a country where most people don't have any photo ID at all.

In any event, this issue alone is a useless measure of how liberal that government is.