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

Starmer to unveil digital ID cards in plan set to ignite civil liberties row

ā€˜Brit card’ already facing opposition from privacy campaigners as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration

The Guardian
@openrightsgroup let them all eat digital ID cards.
@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.
@openrightsgroup what a dystopian phrase "right to work" is.

@craignicol @openrightsgroup

When the entity buying the labour of someone is a company, as opposed to a private individual, more responsibilities protecting the worker from abuse and preventing tax evasion become effective. Not all individuals resident in the UK have a right to do all jobs, e.g. children don't have a "right" to sell their bodies, clean chimneys or go down coal mines for good reasons.

@openrightsgroup From the country that just handed its military to Palantir…

@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 Starmer may say that the conservatives are dead, but it seems pretty clear that the crash team are standing by, warming up the paddles for this current version of the Labour Party

@openrightsgroup

he has said this explicitly, "it will make working illegally harder".

No make life easier or better, it is purely to make life harder.