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The current proposed Identity Card scheme is not the first such scheme in Britain's history. Compulsory identity cards were first issued in the United Kingdom during World War I, abandoned in 1919 and then re-introduced in World War II. The last scheme was abandoned seven years after the end of that war in 1952, amid widespread public resentment.
The British public has an increased distrust of ID cards due to such fictional works as Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and the television series The Prisoner in which citizens were categorized, numbered and controlled by totalitarian regimes.
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