Starmer says people will not be able to work in UK without digital ID

Re:Starmer says people will not be able to work in UK withou... by motbus3 on Friday September 26, 2025 @10:59AM (#45387298)

I don't think it is only online. It is really a distopean future in US and UK right now.

I honestly understand the problem with immigration, but at the same time, I think this way of approaching the problem is just to create "the enemy" from 1984.

It seems that immigrants right now move something between 4B-10B a month in UK which is not a small number. Considering the costs elsewhere altogether, it seems quite small win for the risk.

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Re:Starmer says people will not be able to work in UK withou... by astonex on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:30AM (#45387657)

>It is really a distopean future in US and UK right now.

This ignores the fact that most of Europe and Asia already have national IDs

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Re:Starmer says people will not be able to work in UK withou... by reactordev on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:42AM (#45387785)

We all have national ID’s. It’s about having digital ID’s in a system they control.

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Re:Starmer says people will not be able to work in UK withou... by motbus3 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @03:33AM (#45393846)

The digital id is not the reason for that comment, or not solely. I mean having AI cameras, legalised racial profiling, attack on vessels in international waters without proof (likely killing innocent civilians too when it could be intercepted easily on the coast), we have politics talking about cultural incompatibility of their own people because different religion, we have a post truth media, etc

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