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Went to the local amenity tip this morning too - needed photo ID to get in.

My post office is very strict - no photo ID, no parcel.

Agreed. I'd say it was far more important to prove who you are when you vote, that when picking up a parcel.

What, like when you collect a parcel from the Post Office - or an Albion ticket at an away game?

I'm all in favour of ID Cards too. Nothing to hide, nothing to worry about. I'd also have a National database for DNA - how helpful would that be for solving crime?

I really want to see an end to this shambolic Govt. - but I actually fail to see how proving who you are when you turn up to vote is wrong. If we saw an election in West Africa where people just turned up and literally just said who they are (you don't actually need to have you card with you)...

I had a letter from my local Council last month about this.

100% agree that ID cards should be compulsory.

Not for music it wasn't. From T-Rex to Neil Young, early Elton, to the Stones and Carole King - the 70s were (IMO) the best decade for music - but that's probably for another thread!

I had to have photo ID to get into Palace on Saturday. I had to have photo ID to collect a parcel from the sorting office yesterday. Really - what is the problem?

You had to have photo ID to get into The Amex last night.............

Did you not have to show photo ID to get into The Amex last night?

I guess it stops both the working class and the old voting. Both of which vote Tory.

Used one (Photo ID driving licence) last week when I went to the local tip/recycling centre. The week before when I went onto a construction site, the foreman said photo ID was mandatory. Europeans laugh at us when we say we have no ID card system.

Personally I wouldn't have an issue with carrying an ID card - seems to work in Europe OK. After all - I need ID to do to the tip these days, If we watched an election in (say) Zimbabwe where someone just turns up, gives their name and address without any proof of who they are, and votes ...

You do realise that the Labour Party wanted to introduce ID cards under Blair? Only when we had the Tory/LibDem coalition was the idea scrapped. In 2003, Blunkett announced that the Government intended to introduce a "British national identity card" linked to a national identity database, the...

Would you say the same to all Italians, Germans, French, Greeks, etc. who all have to have ID to enable them to vote? BTW Photo ID is required (along with your membership card) when attending/voting at Labour Party meetings - perhaps it is the Labour Party who is 'cleansing an underclass from...

Seems to work in Europe. Really don't see the issue here.

No.

Personally I feel that wandering into a Village Hall - simply being asked my name, not having to have any ID, not even having to show my polling card, is an antiquated system and open to abuse. If that system was operated in Africa the world would be shouting voter fraud. Personally I don't...