Originally Posted by
moeve
The rest of us EU Citizens have to ID themselves with their National ID cards upon official request even within our own countries.... The EU allows ID Card travel within the EU countries only but even if you are flying with in your own country drivers licences are not considered proper ID. I wonder why the UK (with all their internal troubles) would allow such a thing anyway??
Because we don't have identity cards (and we're not the only ones, the Dutch don't either AFAIK).
The government is now planning to introduce a national identity card, but there is a lot of resistance.