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We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone 🤡 They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are to go about our daily lives.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards #precrime #digitalid #idcards
he has said this explicitly, "it will make working illegally harder".
No make life easier or better, it is purely to make life harder.
@openrightsgroup So according to Starmer the far-right is injecting a poisonous discourse and instigating a violent struggle for the nation. And his response to that… is to control borders and immigration, and immigrants… by requiring everyone to have ID that proves who they are?
If he’s trying to fight the far-right, I’m not convinced he’s taking the right lessons from 1930s Germany there…
smh
@openrightsgroup From the country that just handed its military to Palantir…
@openrightsgroup what a dystopian phrase "right to work" is.
@openrightsgroup Surely the extra costs of expanding the Police to go after the old people and teenagers who don't have smartphones, plus the costs of outsourcing development, won't help keep Government spending under control.
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