Wire Yed wrote:
Bring out a card similar to a driving license that you must produce to claim anything and use the health service for everyone, (small admin fee) and build more schools and train more teachers and I have no issue with it.
In fact living in London I'm hoping my house price goes up due to demand.
An ID card? We already have one effectively, a National Insurance number. It's needed to claim most benefits.
I'm very, very wary of making people have to produce a card or ID of some sort at a hospital. I think the only minor problem that is health tourism can be solved in different ways.
But it's a nice bit of diversion away from the governments real term cuts to health and the real problems facing the NHS, and is a nice way of the government trying to look tough on those nasty foreigners.