To get an ID card, people will have their faces scanned and will have to give 10 fingerprints.
Campaigners fear that this will put off celebrities like American singer Madonna from setting up home here and so damage the cultural life of the nation.
Now I give way to no one in my hatred of ID cards but really, Madonna not being here would be a benefit to the cultural life of the nation, no?
I hope that their real point is that the people that have a choice will avoid it, the rest of us will just have to lump it, which will wrongly be taken as our support.
Well, speaking as someone with a choice, it will put off me from living here. Not sure what that will do for the cultural life of the nation.