I have signed a cross-party letter which outlines our concerns about Starmer's plan to impose Digital ID.
Labour are so embroiled in scandal they have been forced into making a desperate announcement on Digital IDs, which will do nothing to stop the illegal immigration crisis.
I’m for liberty and freedom not authoritarian compulsory Digital ID & I’m very glad to join @RupertLowe10 in signing this letter to the PM. I encourage all my colleagues to do the same.
Digital ID will do absolutely nothing to protect 🇬🇧 borders, nor will it stop illegal working. It’s a total [and probably hugely expensive] distraction by a Govt. adrift a sea.
Rather than the good folk of Britain having to pay the price of ongoing failure with their freedom, perhaps, instead, the @ukhomeoffice could just pull its finger out and start properly monitoring and enforcing visa compliance.
If you’re working here illegally, then you should leave or be deported. That shouldn’t be controversial.
The Govt. has all the data it needs to do this already (despite telling me repeatedly it’s too costly to pull it together to answer my written Parliamentary questions).
They just can’t be bothered or don’t want to do the hard work needed to use the data properly, track people down, and show them the door.
And assigning us all a Digital ID won’t change that one bit.
@NoToDigitalID
Already the petition to stop digital ID has over a million signatures and is climbing fast, can I encourage everyone who thinks this policy represents an unnecessary increase in the surveillance state to sign it to permit a debate in the commons. 👇
https://t.co/EjehpeCH8z
British people don’t ask for much, really. A chance to raise a family in a safe town, with a good job and an opportunity to build a bit of security for the future. A place for their children at a solid school, the odd GP appointment when they need one and a police force that will actually turn up if there is ever trouble.
In short - we just want to get on with our lives in peace, with as little interference from the state as possible.
That really isn’t too much to ask, is it?
Please just leave us alone. That’s the British way. I like it like that.
Instead, we are being dragged into a world where the Government wants to track, log, and verify every aspect of our existence. I don’t want that. The British people don’t want that. We certainly didn't vote for it.
Let’s be clear. This has got absolutely sod all to do with illegal immigration.
I’m not even going to discuss that.
It’s about control. That’s it. The slow creep of a surveillance state that says you cannot live, work, or travel without proving yourself to the system first.
It happened once, during COVID. It was a disaster, as many of us said at the time.
Putting aside the morality behind the scheme, the Government will NOT be able to do it. These people are incompetent, the state is incompetent, it is all incompetent.
Do you trust them to effectively run such a scheme? Without leaks, breaches and cyber attacks?
It will be an unrelenting shitshow - I promise you that.
And what? We don’t have anything else to be focusing on? The country is such a utopia that vast amounts of Government time, energy and resource will now be spent fighting to implement this scheme? Really?
When it is introduced, it will grow and grow. We will never get rid of it.
We must draw a line in the sand, now. Sign the petition, write to your MP, make your voice heard. It does matter.
As an MP, I will do everything in my power to fight this - in Parliament and through Restore Britain, where plans are already underway to expose and fight the plans.
There is lots to do.
I hope you’ll join me.
The Government's plan for mandatory digital ID must be stopped in its tracks.
In the PM's own book, he discusses Article 8 of the ECHR: The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence.
See here. 👇
The main question is why, apart from headline distraction, a government so mired in incompetence and so incapable of delivering what the people are crying out for, would want to focus effort and resource on this recycled rubbish idea.
🚨 We’ve launched our campaign against Digital ID cards – a Blairite plan.
We say NO to:
• Privacy & surveillance
• Hacking
• Threat to freedom & civil liberties
• Excluding older generations
• Function creep
Freedom lost = freedom gone. RT & share! 🔀
Compulsory digital ID cards are an unacceptable assault on British freedoms. They were not in Labour’s manifesto. They will do nothing that the existing National Insurance system does not already do. This is Labour reverting to type, seeking to control and coerce the public.
Prosperity thrives in a free society. Tyranny thrives in one that is not.
Sign our petition against compulsory ID cards here: https://t.co/3Y0Qeo2k8q
#ReformUK #NOtoDigitalID
If the government wants to sell our data to US Big Tech and wants to further curb our civil liberties, it should say so honestly.
But saying this will stop small boats is ridiculous.
Starmer to unveil digital ID plan and ignite civil liberties row
https://t.co/dxJER59efI
Alongside serious concerns about civil liberties, data security and misuse, this fixation on ID cards is a huge waste of resources and political capital.
The Government should be focused on helping people still struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. A huge distraction from what really matters.