[Margaret Pilkington]

It is postal vote fraud that is most worrying.
You cannot know for sure who has cast that vote.
I am sure there are some areas of the community who rely on postal votes and these cards could be filled in by the man who considers himself the 'head' of the household.

My late mother used a postal vote because she found it very difficult to get to the polling station....and my disabled daughter also uses a postal vote for the same reasons.

When I went to vote on Thursday I took my voting card.
If the identification of a voter is required then I have many ways that I could identify myself.
I have a P60, I have a letter from the NHS which confirms my NHS number. I have a bank statement.
I do not mind providing any of these as my proof of identity.
What I will not subscribe to is a National ID card system because it would prove nothing.

National ID cards would just be another stealth tax....because they would not be free.
I am sure those who were not entitled to be here and could not get one legally would be obliged by the criminal element in this country who would clone them, fake them etc.

And who would police them?
If no one polices a system, then it might just as well not be there.
As for getting medical treatment...a couple of weeks ago I trotted along to a local hospital with my NHS number and received the surgery I needed.
I am known by my GP.
I have lived in this country for seventy years....no one has ever missed collecting my taxes, the local council knows who I am and what local taxes need to be extracted from me.