On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 3:25:55 PM UTC, charles wrote:
In article ,
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Dave Plowman (News)
escribió:

It's about time we moved into the 20th century (let alone the 21st)
and had proper ID cards.

You've got one. Your passport. Why do you think we need yet more
bureaucracy?

a passport is too big and bulky to carry in your wallet.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England

In Ireland the post office will make you a credit card sized facsimile of the relevant page of your passport which can be used as id but not travel obvioulsy