Also the UK gov has has the cyber security track record of an open door with a neon sign saying 'free sensitive material this way' This is basically a giant government backed scheme for mass identity theft.

I don't think it's possible, in 2025, to opt out of engagement with these companies in any practical way.

The federal government already has an abundance of personal information about me. If they issue a digital ID I'm not providing them any additional information.

Whenever someone googles anything, they're providing google with hew, intensely personal, information.

While you, personally, might take digital privacy seriously and leak less than a fishes asshole, we both know that the vast majority of people literally can't take a shit without telling google how well their spouse's new meds are working.

You can theoretically opt out of a great many things, but that doesn't mean the behavior is practically possible.

Those are fair points. However, does a digital ID really provide any additional information with which a government might oppress citizens and dissidents? Or do they already have all the same information?

They're not remotely the same and thing claiming that they are is entirely disingenuous.

Many digital-only forms of ID already exist. Apple wallet, TIN/SSN, that Covid passport thing, Biometric residence permits.

All of those are not controlled by the government, cannot be used to track people, or are entirely made up. I don't know what this covid passport thing is.

Also are you even British, you're talking about SSN's, we don't have those.

It's easy to make this kind of generalisation but in reality we are like any other western country - extremely polarised by social and traditional media and currently vearing towards fascism because of a combination of external manipulation and increasing inequality and misplaced anger about it.

Our population is also quite stratified in terms of race - there are some very multi-cultural cities and towns and there are towns where the population is entirely white and the locals only experience of other cultures is via the TV or speciality restaurants and shops in the next town over (source: grew up in one such place. Remember having conversation with a guy who said "tried an Indian, it was quite nice actually!"). I suppose this is comparable to the US Western and Eastern seaboards Vs "small town America". People who have never met anyone with a different skin pigment are much easier to manipulate into thinking that all different people are here to take our jobs and live off welfare provided by our hard work. Those people are strongly influenced by the right-wing press such as the daily mail who supported the Nazis the last time around too. (Sidenote: that paper's ownership remains with the same family. Never ever open their site and give them ad revenue).

In reality, many cities are multi-cultural, diverse and open these days. The white fash-inclined people are worried that this open and diverse culture might spread to their town. Partly because the political class, backed up by the DM and GBNews and even the 'impartial' BBC tell them to be.

I'd highly recommend watching Adam Curtis' recent documentary series "Shifty" which follows the downfall of Britain's industrial base and disenfranchisement of the working class led by Thatcher and Blair during the 80s and 90s. It is eye opening.

The Labour party is supposed to be our centre-left party but they are copying the US-Dems in trying to appeal to the right who will never vote for them and alienating their base. They ousted their left-wing leader about 8 years ago and installed Starmer who is for sure a plant for the landed gentry/corporate interests.

TL;DR not all of us are fash inclined, not even most of us. If you're reading this and you're new to this country, seek us out and don't lose heart.

Soon after you will have to submit a certified copy of your palantir social score to that application to use the VPN.

Interesting. In other countries digital ID is treated the same as normal ID card. When I'm buying alcohol I can scan my digital ID or just show my card. No one is forcing anyone to only use the digital one. Are there any indications that the plan is to deprecate physical cards?

I'd love to see a "Get rid of the petitions system, its sole purpose is to make people feel they have been listened to while you continue to ignore them" petition get enough votes to be debated.

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/575833

How can they think it's a winning move?

Didn't the brexit one get something like 5 million votes?

Can't hurt to try and get some people to talk about it.

If that makes you feel better

Right there with you, and Brexit and other countless petitions… I’m going to speak to my MP next weekend about this and the OSA.

Hopefully there is enough backlash to put them in their place.

They serve an important societal and cultural function, you probably just don't understand.

Without the landed gentry it's estimated that within a single generation, Britain's long standing tradition of pederasty would be gone.

Won't somebody think of the little boys, and the aristocratic men who lust for them?

We got rid of almost all of the hereditary ones, I think we are down to 90 out of ~800. So while they are not all gone it’s getting better, now we just need to sort out the “cash for peerage” lords. Having a second chamber to sanity check the parliament is not a bad idea, as long as they are genuine experts granted peerage after a lifetime of service to the country or their field.