Starmer’s digital ID plan is in meltdown.
The public are against it, and companies like Palantir see rumours of their involvement as a reputational risk.
Unusually for a ceo to disavow the project on ethical and democratic grounds. Quite an interview.
“The new digital ID system represents a blatant attempt at state capture by big tech. As constituted, the system’s implementation will represent a wealth transfer in the order of tens of billions of pounds from the British people to Silicon Valley software firms and contractors. The digital ID system will also grant big tech unprecedented access to vast amounts of data on the British public, allowing significant opportunities for profit at our collective expense.”
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
Listen to Lisa Nandy actually say you will not be able to work even if you’re already employed legally
These technocrats are off their heads
Talk is cheap though @lisanandy
We will fight this all the way Together
No to Digital ID
Tell Your MP https://t.co/3ul2g0ek7p
Both Jeremy Corbyn and Rupert Lowe have come out strongly against Digital ID.
Left and right object to massive state over-reach.
Starmer is looking isolated and stupid.
We need to send a loud and clear message to Keir Starmer that we do not support mandatory digital ID cards
This is dangerous for everyone in the UK
If you agree RT this and sign the petition in the thread below 👇
I'm struggling to think of a worse, more unnecessary hill for any government to choose to die on.
One million people have already signed a petition against ID cards. If we’re serious about rebuilding trust, this is the last place to start.
It's like deciding to become a pacifist and then walking into your roughest local pub and knocking everyone's pints out of their hands.
It's actually mind boggling.
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. 👇
Congratulations @10DowningStreet, you have just brought about your own downfall. This freedom-loving nation will never surrender to your perverse control systems. You really have no idea…
Under new plans, every working adult in Britain will need a government-issued digital ID card. The Prime Minister believes it could help crack down on illegal migration. But should digital ID cards be mandatory?
I will not be supporting this.
Tony Blair has been pushing this agenda for more than two decades, always using one excuse or another to justify it.
It's never been fully implemented - and we must make sure it's stopped this time too.
As the petition soars to 1.3 million & rising rapidly the message is clear
#NoToDigitalID@Keir_Starmer
More breaking from Liverpool & Merseyside as we go
https://t.co/Wt8RjZ95N7