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  Andy, we need a filing system because there is me and the boss + four kids who (for example) phone from France needing their NI No.
  
  You lose your wallet (though I suppose you'd notice the missing weight) and you lay yourself open to ID fraud.
  
  With a single card with biometric data there is not the same problem.
  
  Anyway the argument has been lost temporarily due to a load of ill informed and rather stupid little Englander luddites (and NO I do not mean anyone on the forum).
  
  What I do guarantee is that within the next twenty years we will all be carrying around a single 'thing' which will be a unique identifier, work with the ATM, open our front door and car, give us entrance to our place of work, act as an Oyster card, get us on the Eurostar to our pre-booked seat etc. etc.
  
  Meanwhile there will still be some prat writing to the Daily Mail by the light of his hoard of filament lamps (because they give a different sort of light) telling me that I should carry a load of keys and coins in my pocket, the latter because the have the king's head on and we are English after all.....

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