This year, the United Kingdom will become the first Western nation to deploy a global digital ID system for the general public.
The digital identification system will utilize an app for smartphones when it deploys.
It is being marketed as a way for young people to buy alcohol and go to clubs.
The digital ID will incorporate facial recognition biometrics within an app.
It will also allow the payment of taxes, banking activities, state-issued benefit program disbursements, and, perhaps alarmingly, merely shopping at the store.
“Young people will be able to use government-backed digital ID cards to prove they are old enough to drink alcohol under legal changes to take effect next year,” the Telegraph reported.
“They will be able to sign up to digital ID companies that are certified against Government-set standards for security and reliability and then use the app on their smartphone to prove they are over 18 when visiting pubs, restaurants, and shops.
“It is part of a wider effort to move more state functions online so that people can prove their identity for everything from paying taxes to opening a bank account using the government-backed app.”
The Hegelian Dialectic of problem-reaction-solution is being seen in the push for a digital ID as well.
Last Summer, former UK Home Secretary Lord Blunkett said that a digital ID is inevitable to combat the flood of illegal aliens in the country.
“Digital ID cards are ‘inevitable’, Lord Blunkett has said as he became the latest New Labour ‘big beast’ to back their introduction to tackle immigration,” the Telegraph said in July.
“The former home secretary said the growth of digital records across all aspects of people’s lives meant the Government would have to streamline them into a single ID.
“His intervention comes after Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, rejected calls for digital ID cards, which Sir Tony Blair said would enable the Government to ‘know precisely who has a right’ to be in the U.K.’”
There is great irony in the fact that, after allowing in limitless third-world hoards, the U.K. is beginning to want to know “precisely who has a right” to be in the country.
Currently, the UK government stresses that this new form of identification is not technically mandatory.
However, citizens would be denied basic services without a digital ID, such as healthcare or social media access.
Additionally, detractors of the program point out how many former voluntary programs end up becoming mandatory in the future.
Another point, made by UK Heritage Party Leader David Kurten, is that the digital ID initially began to be pushed in the form of a Covid vaccine passport.
“The dangerous thing here, it’s not just going to be limited to pubs and clubs,” Kurten said, referencing the Telegraph article.
“They’re even talking about entry to shops.
“Why you would need a digital ID in order to go into a shop and do some shopping?
“I don’t know, that sounds very nefarious.”
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They can stick their Digital ID where the Sun doesn't shine. pic.twitter.com/YAc1gBQgVd— David Kurten (@davidkurten) December 10, 2024
The government is also seeking digital IDs for veterans’ services as well.
As part of the drive to digitalize existing identity documents, the Government has recently unveiled plans to enable about 250,000 former service personnel to access digital veteran cards on their smartphones starting next year, as Slay News previously reported.
“The digital identification document will help veterans to prove their status and speed up access to services and support programs.”
Kurten rationed that having a system that “speeds up” access to services for those with a digital ID creates a two-tiered society, where those who submit to the new technology enjoy preferential treatment.
“What they’re saying is, it’s not going to be compulsory, that’s said in these articles, that’s a bait-and-switch probably, but they’re saying at the moment it won’t be compulsory, but what does appear to be happening is that with these things, when they’re brought in you’re going to have an Apartheid system,” Kurten said.
“So you have a digital ID, you get access to everything quicker and easier.
“But if you choose to keep your data private, to live life as you’ve always done, with no need to put your ID and your data on some app with some company with heaven knows what it’s going to do with it, then, your life is made more difficult.”
We all know this is going to happen Digital ID pic.twitter.com/1kpsGKh159
— 𝓑𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮𝓼 🇬🇧 (@BBlues100) December 9, 2024
Kurten compared the digital ID to the Covid vaccine rollout, explaining how first it was just medical workers and elderly who had the shots pushed on them, then adults as a whole, then children, then babies, all with the promise that if you just get injected you will have your old life back.
“They’re trying to use a carrot at the moment, but I’m sure the stick is not far behind,” he said.
Notably, a digital ID can be remotely turned off at any time and for any reason by government bureaucrats.
Social media posts that offend the government could effectively result in people being barred from their daily activities if they do not toe the party line.
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