John Bull on Nostr: essentially distrust of ID cards in the UK isn't really distrust of the usefulness of ...

essentially distrust of ID cards in the UK isn't really distrust of the usefulness of having ID.

It's that ID represent a contract between the state and citizen in which the citizen agrees to be always-identifiable and the state agrees not to abuse that or use it to exclude people.

There is zero trust in a good chunk of the UK citizenry, on either right or left, that the state would hold up its end of that bargain.