On Saturday July 16 2016 11:59, you wrote to Henri Derksen:
DR> Not everyone in the UK has a passport. I didn't have one until I was DR> forty years of age which is when I started going abroad.
When I was a child, children could travel on their parent's passport. We have been traveling abroad as long as I can remember. I don't remember exactly when I got a passport of my own, but it must have been when I was 16 or earlier, because that was when I crossed borders on my own.
About fifteen years ago, I stopped renewing my passport as I would have to submit fingerprints. I don't want to do that for a avriety of reasons and I do not need a passport any more to travel within the EU. An identity card is enough and I can still get that without submitting fingerprints. I do not want to submit to the outrageous security measures installed after 9/11 for commercial flying, soI don't think I will travel outside the EU any more anyway.
DR> Not everyone in France has a passport either but they all do have an DR> ID card.
Same here. An ID is a requirement for many things. E.g opening a bank account or getting a job. For some things such as voting a driver's license will do.
DR> My French neighbours came to visit us in the UK and all they had to do DR> was to show their ID card at passport control. (Of course, that may DR> change as a result of Brexit but I don't know. There are lots of DR> rumours flying around.)
If after Brexit I need a passport to visit the UK, the so be it. Thet will have to do without me. ;-)
