Instead of ID Cards, maybe we should stop being such a soft touch to the scroungers on benefits... then we will not be as attractive a prospect for people to come to!
Illegal immigrants are attracted to the UK because there is plenty of British Employers willing to pay them cash and offer them a hiding place and the ability to live unnoticed outside the system.
If the only way to work in the UK was via the legal route there would be no point in illegal immigrants travelling.
Close down the British sources of illegal employment for illegal workers (both immigrant and nationals) and there will end a large part of the problem.
By requiring only UK national who work in a secure well checked industry to have the ID cards the Authorities have neatly avoided the issue. Of course the thousands of foreign people who are quite entitled to work in UK aviation and who choose to do so will not have to worry about loosing their jobs.
I can just see it - mass dismissal of UK Nationals who refuse to have the voluntary ID card - to be replaced by Foreign people who are quite entitled to have the job and just as qualified but who do not have to have an ID card!
Of course those people are far cheaper for the Governemt - unlike many UK people they either work or leave the country and when they retire they in the majority of cases also leave the country. If everyone was like that the Government would save trillions.
Regards,
DFC