‘This is serious’: Starmer orders move towards digital ID system
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/this-is-serious-starmer-orders-move-towards-digital-id-system
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‘This is serious’: Starmer orders move towards digital ID system
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/this-is-serious-starmer-orders-move-towards-digital-id-system
Posted by JayR_97
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*The PM’s advisers believe an ID system could reduce friction between the public and the state*
Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.
We let them take an inch, now they are going to take a mile.
Didn’t take long to start slipping down that slope.
they can shove that, but sheepy supporters of his will lap it up and do what they are told
Of course I assume this means handing more fistfuls of cash to companies that have next to no impact on the economy. Surely if we keep handing money to tech and finance eventually it will trickle down to your average brit, it hasnt worked for 20 years but surely this time it will
I really have never understood the opposition in this country to you know, basic acts of state organisation that so many other countries manage without turning into a dystopian hell?
You can see how utterly cretinous objections are by the existence of photo card driving licenses and passports. The government already has this data about most people, who are the off-gridders concerned by this?
As an example, when you have to start using you government ID to access websites, and insurers and mortgage providers can access your browsing history.
They can piss off, i ain’t going down this slippery slope.
I agree with a proper ID system but I bet it gets given to one of the usual government contractors who will massively overcharge and make a crap job of implementing it.
>A new internal paper by the Tony Blair Institute
It figures that *that* twat is involved in some way.
How else will they hold you to account for your anonymous online posts via VPN about topics critical of government policy if you’re not using your name and your approved social media account linked to your digital ID.
Starmer is a technocrat at heart. Which means he has not a scintilla political insight.
Literally everything coming out of Downing Street is now based on numbers not feelings.
This is a good thing, genuinely. This is also the correct way to establish online content restrictions in an anonymous way.
I have a driver’s license looked after by one body, a passport by another, taxes by a third, health by a fourth, voting by a fifth… and they all need permission to talk to each other. This is silly. It can be centralised and streamlined.
At the same time, a default national ID, like one’s National Insurance Number but better, can be used to generate a one time “this user is over-18” proof token that isn’t tied to any of my real IDs. This is a firewall between having your face scanned or passport scanned to see content.
There’s no reason not to have a proper, modern, centralised, digital ID system.
Between ID cards , OSA and the limits placed on the rights of trans people, the Starmer Government is shaping up to be the most socially conservative in YEARS.
Even the Conservative governments before it, which you would expect to be pretty strict, did things like legalise gay marriage (extending it from civil partnerships) and reform abortion in Northern Ireland.
That’s on top of the horrifically unpopular tax and spending choices they’ve been making. It’s almost like he’s got a job offer for the second half of 2029 and the last thing he wants is a second term.
They’ve gone nuts with authoritarianism lately wtf.
Labour are becoming the nazis with all this control
So, a digital ID to control people who arrive on boats with zero ID is effective, how? Oh, wait think of the children
Could you just issue an official approved Wank Card please and have done with it 👍
Every time I see a savage put down of this increasingly incompetent and authoritarian government on reddit, in the back of my mind I sense clampdowns like this being their next agenda.
I wonder if Keir Starmer has ever had a single independent thought
Get these fucking cunts out of Parliament, I swear.
Christ, it’s been a nice year I’ve spent back here in the UK, but it has also really solidified why I left in the first place. I wish you all the best and hopefully some sanity can return to this island.
How the fuck are they worse than the tories. How is that even possible?
With each day that passes the U18’s they’re going to give the vote to are going to be the group that brings them down.
The exact opposite of what they planned.
It seems like this country is doing everything backwards, a digital id that really worked and allowed to prove your age without revealing identifying information to third parties would have made OSA a lot easier to swallow.
Instead they’ll force through two policies which no one likes.
Authoritarian rule under torys and authoritarian rule under labour.
This is what they do.
Rather than fix the underlying issues that people are getting frustrated about, Labour just seem intent on silencing any criticism through whatever means possible
Feels like the U.K. is heading into a really dark place
Absolutely fucking not, get fucked Labour. Don’t act shocked if Farage gets in.
The Government should serve the people, not the other way round.
>The scheme aims to tackle illegal migration.
Create the problem, provide the solution.
This has nothing to so with immigration and everything to do with population control.