Digital ID in the UK: The Government Says It Is Voluntary, But Your Employer Might Not Give You a Choice
The UK's new Digital Access to Services Bill promises a free, voluntary digital ID. But right-to-work checks are a 'priority use case,' and 19 million Britons face digital exclusion.
Only ONE problem with all of this, this is what Starmer and his ass kissers want and they're currently struggling to maintain any control.
The party that won the most recently, Reform, have said they oppose digital ID and will remove a lot of the associated stuff with age verification. Restore have gone further to guarantee the use of physical cash and refusal for biometric tracking. Then there's the legal issues as Ofcom is currently going to court with Facebook.
So here's the problem, spending so much on a policy that is EXTREMELY costly and unpopular for a Prime Minister EVERYONE hates and will probably get torn apart after the next election.
It might be best to drag feet, not fully implement it to where it's mandatory and just deny Starmer doing anything else to it. It might be the ONLY way some Labour and Conservative MPs keep their seats and that calculation is in ALL those politicians minds right now as they are in survival mode.
I wish you were right about things changing but I don't think Reform will be much different. They're the usual flip-flopping conservatives who make an appearance of conserving yesterday's progressivism (and failing) instead of doing anything meaningful or undoing all the damage that was done over the previous generations.
Yeah, reform is controlled opposition. Restore hopefully isn't.
I mostly agree about Reform but on Digital ID it's 50/50 whether they'd remove it in office.
The factors that might push them to remove is that A LOT of their members including Farage have been on the negative recieving end to even debanking attempts.
The other is just how popular it is to get rid of it so ego might make him do something that essentially, is easy yet popular to do.
The problem is that digital ID can be implemented behind the scenes and then people will barely notice and it wouldn't affect Reform if they allowed that to happen. It is in fact already the plan to turn existing IDs into digital IDs by forcing employers to digitally verify IDs through the government. Farage having personally suffered from something doesn't mean he will be against it. Look at Trump and FISA.
Reform is just the Tories 2.0. They won't do a damn thing to help native Brits.
Probably right, they are doing a good job of paving the way for Restore though.
One hole in that theory is that the left historically is very good at knowing when to blow political capital now for entrenched wins, and then slink away and come back later. They did this a lot with Clinton, then Obama, then Biden. They pursue radical leftist policies that are wildly unpopular, knowing it will cost them elections and support in the near term, but making sure to entrench those leftist policies as hard as they can.
The incoming right leaning government, no matter the nation, tends to not repeal or rescind those leftist policies in any meaningful way, and the left just waits a few election cycles until people forget what they did and the right becomes unpopular again, then rinse repeat.
I can see Starmer and his ilk going full bore to get this sort of thing passed and as set in stone as possible, knowing it's throwing the next election and making them hated...for a while. They know Reform and even Restore probably won't manage to get rid of most of it, and then the leftists can come back in a decade and take the next big step.
The Right tends to waste political capital on moral wins that ultimately don't matter. The Left tends to spend political capital on tangible wins that become irreversible for generations.
Just like the jab!
Came here to say this!!! Biden was like, we're not forcing you to get it (just not letting you into society without it) and then he tells companies to mandate it.
Its voluntary until it's not voluntary anymore. Much like covid shots in canada
It's voluntary in the same way getting out of the way of a steamroller is voluntary.
Ah yes, "voluntary or you can't participate in society."
If it's coerced then it isn't voluntary now is it?
The vax passport here was voluntary too, they've already made it clear if they want to gate you off from society you can choose to be exile.
Honestly man i choose exile
Can you even choose exile or is travel one of the things it's required for?
The government of Québec was discussing banning the purebloods from grocery stores so I was about to pack my bags and leave.
Mind you, they were discussing this weeks after the rate of positive tests was higher among the people who took the injections than among people who did not.
Even if an employer doesn’t require the new ID, remember the UK government said that all IDs will soon have to be verified digitally. That suggests the employer will send the ID image or data to a government server which will respond with whether the person is allowed to work. So all IDs will essentially be turned into digital IDs and the government can make individuals unemployable if they do something the government doesn’t like.
They did the same thing with the vax passports, and it's usually enforced via "well here's a bunch of totally optional programs you can access via having digital ID, but we swear it's not mandatory".
This is the way they get around it all. They explicitly make it as difficult as possible and say "well technically, you can go without it", as if it isn't explicitly punitive when you don't.