Public support and oppose ID cards!?

From the Telegraph:

Public support for identity cards is far lower than the Government claims, an opinion poll for The Daily Telegraph shows today. Ministers maintain that 80% of voters back their plans for the cards and want them introduced quickly. But a YouGov survey has found that just 52% back the plans

The public shows no sign of looking forward to the introduction of identity cards.

People doubt whether cards will materially assist in the war on terror and clearly think that a national scheme will be shot full of holes. Yet a small majority, 52%, persist in saying that the cards should be brought in. They appear not to have noticed the contradiction between their long-standing predilection for cards and their up-to-date assessment of what having cards will actually mean.

However, only 21% believe cards will reduce the chances of further terrorist atrocities and opinion is evenly divided on whether they will make it easier for the police to catch criminals.

There is an almost equal division on whether having cards will make people's lives more convenient.
Opinions on the negative side of the debate are far more one-sided. Every one of the seven negative statements receives majority support, most of them by a wide margin. No fewer than 80% of YouGov's respondents are convinced that determined criminals and potential terrorists will always find a way of forging the cards.

More than 70% of those in the survey believe that the proposed national system of cards will be enormously expensive to install and maintain and will certainly cost far more than the Government claims.

More than 70 % are also convinced that some of the data stored on people's cards will inevitably be leaked, sold, hacked into or used improperly in other ways.

Perhaps because they recall the passport fiasco of the late 1990s, 60% fear that the introduction of cards will be time-consuming and cause an immense amount of disruption and inconvenience.
Roughly 61% fear that the data on people's cards will sometimes be passed on without proper authorisation to foreign governments and other foreign agencies.

Given the experiences people have already had with credit cards, it may be surprising that fewer – 55% - believe a portion of the material stored on the cards will inevitably contain errors of one kind or another. Roughly the same proportion, 50%, believes that the equipment that reads the cards is bound from time to time to malfunction and fail to read the cards accurately.

Overall the proportion of the population that believes the cards will be largely fool-proof and forgery-proof and that they will also be cost-effective appears to be no more than 30%.

Even so, 52% of people still say that they favour a national ID scheme.

WTF? Despite all of the above, a majority of people are still in favour!?