Would introducing identity cards make sense?

FURTHER to reader J. M. Haines’s suggestion that ID cards are introduced (Letters), make that reintroduced. I still have one, which was issued when I was a newborn. During the war people had to have the means to prove who they were, to prevent the infiltration of enemies. The wartime ID card scheme was discontinued in February 1952.

ANGELA HOLLIS, Nuneaton, Warks. YES, now is the time to consider introducing ID cards, to allow relevant agencies to deal with the problem of illegal immigrants. If you have a right to be in UK, then an ID card is issued. If not, you’re on the next plane out. What is wrong with this very simple solution?

BRIAN ROBERTS, Aylesbury, Bucks. I AGREE with J. M. Haines, I don’t want ID cards but feel that now is the time. They should be issued free of charge, as medical cards are, with a charge to replace any that are carelessly lost.

ANN GIBBONS, Cirencester, Gloucs. PEOPLE who don’t want ID cards just don’t want to live in a police state.

DEREK BENNETT, Walsall, W. Mids. I HAVE nothing to hide and my day-today comings and goings would bore most folk to death. What I object to about the idea of introducing ID cards is that if we did, I’d have to prove who I was to any jumped-up jobsworth who demanded to know, just because they believed they could.

ROS MURDIN, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. THE crazy ID card idea was discredited years ago. The London School of Economics estimated that setting up then Home Secretary David Blunkett’s proposed ID card scheme in 2012 would have cost £12 billion — and we would have hacked details, fake IDs, blackmail and a Chinese- style social credit system. Absolute madness.

BARRY TIGHE, Woodford Green, Essex.