police-state load of rubbish.
Statistic for you. The UK is by all accounts geographicaly a rather small country. It can fit inside california and we have 1/4 the total CCTV cameras in the WORLD all rammed in to this tiiiiny little space. Why? I dont feel safe anymore i feel watched!!
There was a program on the other night and a guy with a head cam (to prove he was actually doing it) tried to walk a few miles through London without being spotted by a security camera. He wasn't doing anything wrong.. just to see if he could do it. It took him ages to get where he wanted to go without being "checked". Ok its debatable to whether or not we are living in a police state right now but Call100 is making the point that things like this make sure that one day (soon!) we damn well will be.
ID cards are generaly pointless.