In article , Rian van der Borgt
writes
A national ID card will do. Or doesn't that exist in the UK?

Not yet, although there are attempts in the pipeline to make people
think it would be acceptable. We remember the War, and "papers please"
and don't want to go back to that.
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"It used to be that what a writer did was type a bit and then stare out of the
window a bit, type a bit, stare out of the window a bit. Networked computers
make these two activities converge, because now the thing you type on and the
window you stare out of are the same thing" - Douglas Adams 28/1/99.