Starmer to unveil digital ID cards in plan set to ignite civil liberties row
‘Brit card’ already facing opposition from privacy campaigners as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration
A “Brit” card would be the most un-English thing ever. And yes, I do mean un-English. Who cares what the Celts think?
I’ve decided to stop being angry, now the blood pressure’s hit 200 and just laugh at the clowns as they try a bit of juggling…
Your’re the man in today’s Matt cartoon and I claim my £5.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/matt-cartoons-september-2025/
Richard Burgon actually said something sensible on this matter. That is how serious it is.
To be fair, I expect he had to copy it off of someone. I can’t imagine that he came up with it himself.
The cheeky fuckers really have forgotten that they are the servants, haven’t they? I signed this a few days ago when it was on about 70,000. It’s now over 600,000 (and has gone up by 50,000 in the last hour).
Do you have a link?
GBNews had the story this morning. Before they ran it, it was under 500,000. It’s now 617,000.
Watched Lisa Nandy on BBC Breakfast and apparently it will be compulsory to have one but you’ll never be asked to produce it except by your employer. In which case, given that we already have NI numbers, what’s the point?
The Left, in panic at the rise of Reform, following their authoritarian instincts.
Here’s a link to the petition aganst:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
My usual question. On what basis do they issue the cards? If the cards are compulsory then possession of a card must be a “right”. And that is a right everyone currently legally in the UK will have. But how will they assess that “legally” starting from where you are now? Brits have never needed “proof of identity” & a lot of people successfully conduct their lives without it. So they’ll have to issue cards to people with no PoI.
Said before. This will be a wonderful opportunity. Slip over to the UK on my passport. Park the car at a mate’s & leave my kit in the boot. Tog myself out in Oxfam, abjure washing for a few days & get nice & grubby. I’m now a dosser been “living on the streets”. Chuck a brick through a shop window & wait to be arrested. Brief court appearance, short suspended & I now have a social worker to help me get the Brit ID card I’m entitled to in any name I fancy. Open all sorts of doors that will. Couple of weeks & driving back to Spain well happy. My social security money will be going in my new bank account. That’s worth about 6k a year isn’t it? And that’s before I really get going.
No, what’s going to happen is the Brit-Card is going to be used to regularise all these illegals you’re currently infested with. They’ll all disappear off the figures. So proving what a “good idea it’s been.
As I commented on X:
We can be certain of two things:
1. Both costs and timescales will overrun by a factor of PI(), at least.
2. When it does eventually come on line it will be used for all the cases they deny it will be used for and will make sod all differece to illegal immigration.