Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
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The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

The prime minister believes it would help crack down on illegal working and modernise the state, according to senior figures in government.

  • tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Thats because they are without fail massive grifts ran by the IT firms.

    UK already has an ID system that about half of all adults already own that is fully integrated and trusted by the police and other services, the driving license. It even operates at a profit.

    It would be pretty damn cheap in comparison to implementing a new system to just require everybody who doesn’t have the driving license to get a special one thats a different colour and confers no driving privileges.

    Of course that would be too simple and wouldn’t allow scum to skim huge sums of money so here we are…

    Obviously I don’t actually want a mandatory ID but if we getting one then might as well make it cheap and already mostly implemented.