Revised ID cards plans unveiled

BBC says, "Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is setting out a revised timetable for the roll-out of identity cards in the UK.
Non-EU migrants will have to get cards from later this year, airport baggage handlers from 2009 and - from 2010 - students will be offered ID cards.
She also suggests the wider population may not have to get ID cards at all and could opt to use biometric passports to prove who they are instead. "

Why should one have to prove who one is? Government sticks its nose in our affairs and its grasping maw in our pockets. I am determined not to carry ID.