Steve Walker formulated on Saturday :
I never leave my own property, without those things - I feel naked without my wallet, but why would we have to proove who we are, anymore than we do now, with driving licence? We don't have to carry it even when driving - so I doubt they would expect us to always have the ID with us. The point, for those majority who did have their ID with them
- it makes it easy to confirm who they are and be on their way.
As with a lot of things in life, there is no absolute legal requirement to have your ID on you at the time you are asked for it, but you shouldn't be surprised to find that doors are closed to you without ID or you have to make a special journey to the police station to produce your driving licence.
I usually carry my wallet (with driving licence) at all times, but as Steve says, there are times when you are in the middle of a DIY job (or gardening) and nip out to take something to the tip etc. I carry my wallet, not only so I've got means to pay for something that I didn't anticipate, but also as ID in case I'm in an accident. I can be traced through my car, but if I'm not near my car at the time of the accident then having ID on me helps the emergency services identify me and phone my wife etc or know that I'm on the organ donor register (*). I'm so used to my wallet living in the pocket of whichever trousers I'm wearing that if I removed it, I wouldn't know where I'd left it. Likewise for car/house keys.
(*) Though at last the law has been changed to assume consent unless explicitly proved to the contrary. Shame that they still haven't got rid of the next of kin's right to veto organ donation even if you are on the register. It is the NoK veto that *really* needs to be removed.
If going somewhere busy (like the Notting Hill Carnival) I would take house keys, rail ticket and a (small) roll of fivers.
with all of those in a sock or in something other than a pocket
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