‘Absolutely No Way’ Digital ID Will End Up Tracking Brits’ Lives, Says Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer has assured the British public that there’s ‘absolutely no way’ digital ID will end up tracking their lives as he attempts to build support for the much-maligned scheme.
The Prime Minister has said he’s pressing ahead with the proposal despite nearly 3 million people signing a petition to stop it happening, insisting it will be a basic, non-intrusive form of government ID.
The British public are worried that the so-called ‘Brit-card’ will be used to track their movements (which the government can already do anyway), but also track habits like meat and beer consumption and frequent flying in order to further the government’s green agenda.
Essentially, Brits are worried that it will become something akin to China’s social credit system, which is used to rate the trustworthiness of citizens by collecting data on financial records, online activity, and activity in general, and then punishing them accordingly.
Well, Keir Starmer has rubbished those claims, saying only the most fundamental information will be held.
The PM told Metro: ‘None of that is going to be any part of this, it’s just a false rumour. There’s absolutely no plans to do it, nor ever would there be.
‘This is basic information – who you are, what your age is, that sort of information. The basic stuff we use every day to prove who we are, nothing beyond that.
‘So let me knock down that rumour absolutely flat.’
Starmer reiterated that the ‘only area in which digital ID will be mandatory’ is proving your right to work in the UK. Beyond that, he said, using the system would be ‘totally voluntary’.
He also tried to sell the idea by arguing it would make tasks like renting a home, getting a mortgage and proving age when buying booze a lot easier.
He said: ‘In other countries where this has been done, the take-up is massive because everybody sees it, they know somebody who’s got digital ID, and they think, “Why haven’t I got that? It makes life so much easier.”’
I guess we’re just going to have to take his word for it? I mean, it sounds like digital ID is incoming whether we like it or not, so it remains to be seen whether it evolves into something more Orwellian than what the PM is letting on.
Even still, I think he’s going to have to come up with something a lot better than these quotes if he truly wants to win people round to the idea. After all, it’s not like he can categorically assure that ‘there’s absolutely no way’ digital ID will track Brits’ lives, because he does not have control of it in perpetuity once it’s introduced.
‘Absolutely no way’ you should believe a word he says, if you ask me.
For the time the PM called for the ‘return of the sausages’ from Gaza, click HERE. Classic.
