Here we are in April 2021 and there is a huge amount of hysteria at the moment on the subject of IDs but let us cut through the fog and present some clarity

•  There is a need for national ID to allow the nation to define it's citizens which then allows illegal immigrants and benefit fraudsters to be identified and claims on our system to be controlled
•  This cannot be a forgeable entity like an ID card or an easily damaged characteristic like a fingerprint but a more robust biometric like Iris pattern
•  This characteristic ID must be held on a national database with very limited access and scan equipment held only by our police force, social security, NHS, polling stations, border force and Customs
  

In this way control of ID would never pass to Pub doormen, Stadium turnstyles, theatre receptions, event entry kiosks etc

However, the biggest worry of all, as we progress to a New World Order designed to eliminate nation states, is can we trust that our democracy does not drift into a totalitarian state that inherits all the established data and misuses it to control citizens in a tyrannical manner.