I have absolutely no objection to carrying an ID card as a means of helping combat these evil minded fanatics. After all I am well known to the authorities as I have a bank account, use a computer, smartphone,am on various governments databases eg DWP NHS etc. Any law abiding citizen would surely not object.
If the threat to our security came solely from outside our borders then we might not need this measure but its British citizens who are being radicalised by these hate preachers,sent off abroad for "brain washing" & training in terrorism then return to UK as though they have been for a holiday, freely admitted by our customs/border security people.
I read Lews post re Putins speech to the Russian parliament &, although I may not care for some of his actions, I wholeheartedly agree. If you want the benefits of living in a free democratic society then you abide by our rules. I am sick & tired of hearing about burkas, Sharia Law, Faith Schools, and other forms of "special treatment"
This is Britain 2017 FFS not some foreign country stuck in the dark ages way of thinking. And if people arent willing to become British citizens in respect of our laws & culture then why come in the first place?
You might think I am racist-I assure you I am not. I live in Birmingham the first city that will an experience a majority non-white population in the very near future.
My neighbours include white Brummies of English,Welsh, Scots & Irish descent, Afro Caribbeans, Asians of every religious persuasion & many from China, also East Europeans and we all mostly get along pretty well. There are areas of my city, however, where I feel uncomfortable & unwelcome-I guess in a similar way to how the first post war West Indiansimmigrants must have felt on arrival in the UK back in the 1940s & 50s.