Yay.

😔

Honest question: why are people against digital ID? What are the fundamental differences between that and a physical ID?

At this point I'm convinced he's deliberately doing everything he can to make himself unpopular.

So UK's biggest IT project ever ...any chance that it will be delivered on time, within budget and working as intended?

Will the vendor be Fujitsu?

I’ve heard rumours they are even going to call it the “Brit Card”.

Say no to Starmer Cards and the surveillance state.

It's one of those things, that if done well, in a privacy respecting way, would be awesome!

.... But they don't want it to be privacy respecting.....

I've heard this rumour for the past 20 years.

Now Reform will start piping up about how they will block this and they’ll get even more votes. Between this and the age verification stuff I’m almost considering voting for them but I can’t stand the idea of Nigel Farage being PM and they keep trying to emulate Trump.

already in 2nd place on that site the govt ignores https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open

It's honestly impressive how many bad decisions one government can make.

This will make fuck all difference. Employers already do background checks, I've always had to give some kind of ID whenever I've started a new job, and there will always been employers that don't do any checks.

In theory, this should be one of those things that should make accessing services easier, but we all know this will be a foot in the door to more authoritarian bullshit and be yet another opportunity to show government incompetence.

Is he just picking the most odious policy possible?

The leadership are completely out of touch.

It only took 15 years and the destruction of society but Labour will finally get their ID cards.

This guy is such a dicking idiotic loser I am surprised he hasn't drowned in the toilet

Yvette Cooper and Jonathan Reynolds previously ruled this out, and it's obvious that it will do nothing to prevent immigrants from working illegally. Not to mention that the fact that we don't allow successful asylum claimants to work is repugnant.

So the question is: who leant on him? Who is it that really wants this? Is Palantir going to get the contract, by any chance?

The more stupid authoritarian anti privacy shite this guy does the more reform is more likely to win the next years election, I think they honestly have a good chance compared to last year's elections and there opposition to highly hated labour policy's that the lib Dems nor the conservatives are truly taking seriously

I'm gonna probably have the sus chungus cameo guy as my prime minister

God fuck me man

i mean it's so patently obvious this is a trump idea from their meetig

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?ref=ed_direct