Source: spiked
by Tim Black
“As the old saw goes, to the man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To the Labour technocrat, there is no problem that can’t be solved with a national ID-card scheme. So it is that UK prime minister Keir Starmer has landed on that most New Labourite of policies. The PM announced this week that digital ID cards – to be known in true Blair-era fashion as ‘BritCards’ – will help solve the problem of illegal immigration. … There is absolutely no reason to believe the state can collate private data currently scattered across disparate systems and governmental departments and not screw it up. But even if the state were capable of creating an effective digital-ID scheme, that wouldn’t make a good idea.” (09/27/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/27/digital-id-is-a-disaster-in-the-making/