ID cards and Union Jacks

Apparently, ID cards won't have the Union Jack on them:

The Union Jack has been left off the UK identity card because of fears that it may upset members of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland

I think we're supposed to care about this. I think we are supposed to get worked up and excited about the lack of a Union Jack on the cards. But I struggle to care. Because, lest we forget, there are one of two other problems with ID cards. Like:

• they are a gross breach of civil liberties
• they are creating a database state, where an individual is only as important as the information the government holds on them
• critical and personal information being given to a government that is incapable of looking after secure information under any circumstances
• the cost of ID cards, which will be paid for by taxes and by the surplus charge incurred when the ID card is claimed
• the fact that ID cards will do the square root of bugger all to prevent terrorism. Although will create a new growth criminal industry in forging ID cards.

So, you'll forgive me if I couldn't give a short, sharp fuck about the absence of a Union Jack on ID cards. What worries me is the amount of information that will go on them, and the amount of information we will be expected to give to the government. Frankly, the cards could have Donald Duck on them quacking away happily for all I fucking care. No matter what the government does put on the ID cards, it won't stop them from being a bad idea. Or, to put it slightly more strongly, a fucking shit idea.