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UK's Starmer to press ahead with digital ID plans, FT reports
Reuters ^ | Fri, September 19, 2025

Posted on 09/19/2025 2:53:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is moving forward with plans to introduce digital identification systems as part of efforts to overhaul the country's asylum and immigration system, with an announcement anticipated as early as his party's conference this month, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

The finer details of the scheme were still being ironed out and the timeline could change, the report added, citing two people briefed on the matter.

Immigration and asylum remain at the heart of Britain's political debate, with the government under pressure to curb record migrant arrivals in small boats, while also addressing the strain of housing tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 09/19/2025 2:53:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Now we know a major reason our country is being allowed to be over run by foreign criminals. The mark of the beast will soon be on the ignorent.


2 posted on 09/19/2025 2:58:07 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: Ronald77

So people will need to depend on the government.


3 posted on 09/19/2025 2:58:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“… with plans to introduce digital identification systems as part of efforts to overhaul the country’s asylum and immigration system…”

With just the push of one button, all those will become British citizens. See how much more efficient that is!!!


4 posted on 09/19/2025 3:00:37 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Unfortunately they are going to have to use some military force to make it stop. And that will be ugly. But not as ugly as losing your country.


5 posted on 09/19/2025 3:01:37 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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The UK has almost no military left.


6 posted on 09/19/2025 3:14:58 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: packrat35

But they do have a surfeit of Starmtroopers.


7 posted on 09/19/2025 3:15:51 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: MinorityRepublican
...plans to introduce digital identification systems as part of efforts to overhaul the country's asylum and immigration system...

Bull hockey.

It's so the can track the activities of legacy British citizens and arrest them if they say anything online against Moslems or the ruling class.

8 posted on 09/19/2025 3:22:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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The UK has almost no military left.

Down to 147,300. Their military was bigger during the Iraq War. And that was only 20 years ago.

9 posted on 09/19/2025 3:22:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Digital ID? Where does the original data come from for those who come from other nations with limited ability to provide any records. So the English born have all their information attached to their ID record, but these from other countries only have the data the emigrant provided (made up). Great plan!


10 posted on 09/19/2025 3:25:11 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They have less than 25 main battle tanks left in their army.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/the-british-army-may-have-only-25-active-main-battle-tanks/


11 posted on 09/19/2025 3:28:19 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: packrat35

Tanks are useless.


12 posted on 09/19/2025 3:35:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: All; MinorityRepublican

15 U.S. states already have “digital ID”...i.e. smart phone wallet driver’s licenses. How “scary” it is depends on your definition of “digital ID”. No scary “body tattoos”/”Mark of the Beast”/RFID implants yet.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/states-drivers-license-mdl-phone/

https://www.mdlconnection.com/implementation-tracker-map/


13 posted on 09/19/2025 3:35:42 PM PDT by Drago
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https://enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/18/how-ofdia-is-driving-adoption-of-secure-digital-verification-services/

What could go wrong.


14 posted on 09/19/2025 3:40:06 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In this country, the RealID is only used for people who are legally here. The illegal aliens are allowed onto theplanes with no verifiable ID.


15 posted on 09/19/2025 3:52:11 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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What grates is that the UK, EU, are just itchin’ to get NATO involvement in a battle with Russia.

Of course with their piddly little militaries and economies, you know who gets to do the dying and bear the brunt.

The only thing big about these globalist leaders is their mouths and their ability to lie and create chaos.


16 posted on 09/19/2025 4:00:59 PM PDT by dforest
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To: mewzilla

Kind of a “generic” write up..are they (the UK) just digitizing UK driver’s license type information? (They are probably requiring all citizens/minors? to get their new “digital ID”...not just licensed drivers?). U.S. states get your name, address, DOB, a thumb/finger print, and a photo of your face for a driver’s license, and in addition proof of SSN, proof of citizenship/residency for a federal approved state “Real ID”/DL. And all that info. collected is “digitized” and available electronically. So the argument could be made that we already have “digital ID’s” in the USA via the state DMV’s....just not “mandatory” if you are not a licensed driver or don’t want/get a state ID card. UK is looking to mandate them it looks like.


17 posted on 09/19/2025 4:08:37 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Dr. Sivana

An internal passport is an abomination and goes against the concept of free and unfettered travel within the US. Real ID should be illegal and shoved down the throats of the aholes that came up with it. I always travel with my passport anyway in case I have to get the hell out of here.


18 posted on 09/19/2025 6:40:26 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Without the illegal horde, they wouldn't need it.
Which is why I believe the criminal illegals are the excuse the left uses to institute digital ID and all the other police state surveillance steps that otherwise would be pointless.

19 posted on 09/19/2025 6:50:53 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you are an illegal entrant to the nation, just send them home. Problem solved. If you are an illegal entrant zero public benefits, problem solved. If you commit a major crime go to jail and then sent home, problem solved.


20 posted on 09/19/2025 9:40:16 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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