Originally Posted by
beardedgeologist
In the UK, there is no legal requirement to carry identification. The police have no right to challenge you here for that type of info.
The UK government is considering introducing such a requirement in future years, and it is being seriously resisted by the sane members of our population here and by most of our parliamentarians.
I don't really find it unreasonable to have to prove who I am and that I have a vias or residence permit to be here, but the issues in the UK are much deeper.
The problem is that the UK.gov dreams of further enhancing it's position as Europe's #1 surveillance society and has all these crazy plans about storing people's DNA at birth, having biometric ID cards and networking all kinds of agencies.
England is not a good place to live anymore.
