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The Post Office has won a contract to take photographs and fingerprints of foreign nationals seeking biometric residence permits (BRPs). Immigration minister Damian Green announced the plan as part of a package of measures, also including an online checking service for employers, aimed at reducing the number of illegal workers …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    An ID card by any other name...

    ... even if it's just for garlic eating foreigners.

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  2. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    AC@11:07

    "... even if it's just for garlic eating foreigners."

    To begin with.

    This smells of Lenin's admonishment to "Press the bayonet in. If it meets fat, press harder."

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  3. lawman
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    Another use

    Another use for all those ID card booths that clog up Post Offices across the land. The gummint may have killed ID Cards for now, but the beast still slumbers

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