Why Are We So Ashamed Of Our National Flag?

is the question many people will be asking themselves, and the reason it has been banned from the new UK ID cards is that it might offend Northern Ireland nationalists, the fact that this decision has upset almost everybody else in the British Isles does not seem to count for much, but the good news is that the absence of the national flag drew a furious response from Unionists yesterday, who called the design a 'giant mistake', and urged a boycott of the scheme, Home Secretary Alan Johnson yesterday unveiled the final design for the credit- card sized plastic document which are scheduled to be issued nationally from 2012, now this is the bit I do not understand, Mr Johnson said that the card would never be made compulsory, well if that is the case why spend £200million on something you do not need to have? Ministers continue to claim it will be a convenient way to prove one's identity or age, and that combined with the national identity register it will help combat ID fraud, crime and terrorism, yesterday a poll by the civil rights group Liberty showed 68 per cent of people oppose ID cards, LibDem MP Chris Huhne said: 'A designer piece of plastic is not going to combat identity fraud, crime or terrorism, this intrusive scheme should be scrapped.' well if it is not compulsory why waste more money on it?