There is a lot of data, sure, but itâs not really clean enough. There are passport records, benefit records, tax records, NHS records etc, but these are not well tied up.
What would be needed would be an absolutely rock solid confirmation of identity, which brought these all together. There are loads of uses for this kind of thing, and tbh I think that it will be necessary soon enough. But there are two main problems: firstly general civil liberties - it would be unpopular with a large minority of people and politicians - and secondly it would cement in identities that could be used for crime and fraud.
I imagine that the government could easily sort this for those of us that have passports, NI and tax refs, and NHS numbers. But that would basically mean âordered peopleâ; the more chaotic people might struggle with this, and they are likely to be the people who need the help more.
Almost every individual in the UK has an NI number donât they? Its issued when you hit 16 and never changes. Just use that. It could also wipe out all the other âproof of ageâ services that stitch up 16,17,18 year olds who donât have a driving license or passport. Itâs free to the person so itâs universal and itâs intrinsic to being a legitimate tax paying member of the workforce so most people have an incentive to have it.
Your problem starts with the first word 
The land registry might have the odd record of who owns what
Is your premise that an inability to capture a small fraction of claimants by some form of means testing that it should remain universal ad inifinitum?
Not at all. I favour the creation of a really good population database. But in the absence of that, any system would have holes and those that profit unduly.
Including Cayman Islands sham companies for bits of London
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This is probably why it wonât be done by a Tory government. You would be able to close so many tax loopholes, and create ways to tax wealthâŚ
Most other freedom loving countries have ID cards and their citizens have no problems with them. The âwe British are specialâ brigade are the UK equivalent of the NRA in the US but causing probably fewer deaths. Of course if we all had ID cards I could take the word âprobablyâ out of my earlier sentence because we would know for certain.
Most other freedom loving countries donât have a farcical and corrupt govt who could turn a national ID card scheme into a ÂŁ10billion+ trough frenzy
The whole ID debate of: âif youâve got nothing to hide youâve got nothing to fearâ argument falls down when it is the incompetence and dishonesty of the government itself that gives grounds for mistrust (Fear).
Itâs always the UK economy that is hardest hit. Wouldnât be anything to do with 50 years of useless Tory governments by any chance?
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If the 1922 Committee donât like the result of the vote, they donât have to wait 12 months before another one, they just need to change the rules.
It seems a handful of people can do that with no reference to anyone else.
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