Identity cards
August 21st, 1996
A letter to the Daily Telegraph which was published around the 21st August 1996.
The capacity of this “government” to tie itself in knots is apparently unlimited. The idea being advanced by Sir Patrick Mayhew (report, 19th August) that the proposed voluntary identity card/driving licence should not bear the national flag for fear of offending an anti-British minority in Northern Ireland would be dismissed as ludicrous in any other country. Instead of pandering to members of this minority the government should tell them that if they don’t want British citizenship with its privileges and duties, they should give it up and take our Irish papers.