On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:02:54 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:54:59 +0000, Nick Odell wrote:

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:39:14 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:02:26 +0000, Nick Odell wrote:

I no longer drive but I keep my driving licence up to date simply to
use it as a de facto ID card.

Aye, the photo driving licence has effectively become a national ID
card with a centralised database...

I appreciate the irony. Frankly, I wouldn't have minded if the
government had wanted to extend the driving licence system to include
non-driving licences so that everybody was on board. My objection was
to the range and the depth of extra information they wanted and the
fact that it would all have been in one place. If what's held on the
DVLA database about me were to be left on a laptop in the back of a
taxi it wouldn't make that much difference.

I use my bus pass!


I tried that. I was trying to get onto a secure site to do some
specialised work. They wanted two forms of photo ID issued "by official
bodies". Basically, that was driving licence & passport. I tried my bus
pass, but that's only issued by the council so it doesn't count. I tried
my Amateur Radio licence,but it doesn't have a photograph. Solved it in
the end, but it was difficult. They needed me in particular so that eased
things a little!

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