Impressive

"...does anyone other than Wacky Jacqui want ID cards?"

Yes, all the consulting and IT companies who will be able to partake of the huge amount of pork that will be set loose by the project.

How long until the UK.gov tries to sell this as a way to help stave off the recession?

(P.S. is any government lackey reads this post and tries to use this idea, I've just copyrighted it)