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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to UK Politics@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months ago

Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

www.bbc.co.uk

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Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

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The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
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  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    welcome back, tony blair 5.0

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      Tony blair but a downgrade

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        At least Blair knew how to start an illegal war.

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          He also did the child trust fund. Free money so he’s in my good books.

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    Is he just picking the most odious policy possible?

    The leadership are completely out of touch.

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

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    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?

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      I think it will be Oracle. They massively fund the Tony Blair Institute, and Blair has always had a love of ID cards.

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        So Larry Ellison instead of Peter Thiel. Another foreign billionaire who totally has our interests at heart.

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        Hanlon’s Razor, sure, but I don’t buy it. He isn’t stupid.

        Just like the Online Safety Act, it isn’t going to do much for its stated purpose, but it’s going to be very effective for helping the government find and stop people organising protests.

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            It isn’t only a question of political astuteness though. It’s obvious that it won’t work. Only an idiot would think that someone who is prepared to risk their life crossing the channel in a small boat is going to be put off by a digital ID.

            I don’t think I want to even consider that he might be dismantling our freedom to appease the far right in the hope that they won’t notice that it hasn’t done anything. I don’t think you call that a lack of political astuteness. That would be rank stupidity.

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    wow i thought that was alcohol-bloated pete hegseth

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

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    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

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

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

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