Posted on 09/25/2025 9:39:34 AM PDT by RandFan
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce plans for a compulsory UK-wide digital ID scheme in a speech on Friday.
The prime minister believes it would help crack down on illegal working and modernise the state, according to senior figures in government.
The practicalities of the scheme will be subject to a consultation, which will also look at how to make it work for those without a smartphone or passport.
The previous Labour government's attempt to introduce ID cards was ultimately blocked by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
But earlier this month, Sir Keir said in an interview he thought the debate had "moved on" since then.
"We all carry a lot more digital ID now than we did 20 years ago, and I think that psychologically, it plays a different part," he added.
Reports have suggested the government plans to use a new scheme to check people's right to live and work in the UK, with people's individual ID checked against a central database.
These checks are currently based on physical documents, although routes to complete the checks online for some people have existed since 2022.
The government last year rejected a digital ID proposal suggested by former Labour Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair.
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Will the law apply to their newly arrived “friends”, or will there be a second tier of laws for them? (And just by asking that I’m probably subject to arrest if I ever visit Airstrip One)
1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual, Brits!..............
Well, bye.
“modernise the state”
Those words should send a chill down the spine of every thinking human.
One step closer to the mark of the beast.
Dystopia
Will it be etched on their scalps?
Yikes! To stop illegals working set up a national scheme requiring anyone being hired for a job to prove identity and right to work. And position your navy and coast guard to intercept all boats and turn them around. If the occupants drown as a result that’s their problem.The boats would have come from another EU country so there’s no reason...other than higher benefits...for them to come to Britain.
“The prime minister believes it would help crack down on illegal working”
The socialists create the problems for which they can demand more socialist solutions.
As if they want to crack down on illegals!
Totalitarianism disguised as a helpful tool.
makes it easier to punish a mean tweet
PSA: Stock up on firearms, ammo, and accessories now, before the next politically manufactured shortage !!!
616..the number of the beast.
Unless your muzzlamb.
Is that the lesser beast? I thought it was 666. :)
too far down to save, imo
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