A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks by the end of the Parliament.
Welp, this is gonna be a privacy clusterfuck.
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This is typical of Starmer: an empty vacuous authoritarian solution to an already solved problem.
It will do nothing to stop undocumented workers from being exploited by unscrupulous employers who will still pay them a pittance in cash but will add to the already massive surveillance state, and with the inevitable mission creep, it will end up being required for innocuous day to day tasks such as getting prescriptions, seeing medical services, possible even things such as purchasing travel or alcohol.
Then you can imagine what happens if someone ID is deactivated, accidentally or on purpose.
With future govts, what if one of them wants to prosecute it’s political opponents?
It’s just the most stupid idea from a guy that is a completely lame duck prime minister
This is quite a succinct response to the status quo. People will be placed under the mercy of the government, and as history has taught us, the government will not resist the urge to torment its people.