If the aim was to 1) construct an even uglier, more extreme version of our already very racist, needlessly cruel persecution machine, then 2) hand the keys to the posh National Front by 3) collapsing as hated public enemies, in an avalanche of corruption scandals: how would it look different?

Repeatedly saying "brits" here is the tell that would enable James Bond to spot that Starmer is actually a Russian spy, no Englishman talks like this

Don't Ever Antagonise The Horn.

This 'digital id' is just wordplay for 'we want your unlocked phone without a warrant' and they can absolutely go piss up a rope.

When was the last time Labour came third in Manchester?

I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨 WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24+ government contracts including: Thread

In Yarvin’s “Patchwork” model: no courts, no rights, full biometric policing, citizens genotyped and iris-scanned, and “unproductive” people consigned to VR solitary confinement. It’s tyranny dressed as technocracy. /10 bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

He's no Gerald Ford.

"Blue Labour" should rename itself "Turquoise Labour". Lord Glasman's role appears to be to channel ideas from MAGA extremists and techbro fascists into the bloodstream of the Labour Party. And this project seems to have the blessing of the Labour leadership.

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Trying to explain about Peter Thiel and Palantir to my parents whilst we're talking about ID cards and realising that I sound completely insane, but it's all true, it's all public: it's just never on the news.

Let’s also set up infrastructure that a far-right populist party might abuse should they win an election.

I'd forgotten how infuriating it is to have to constantly point out that we're not objecting to the concept of an ID card, but to the amount of private & biometric data involved, linked to a massive national identity database, run by a US tech bro, which is hugely vulnerable to attack

Terri Rogers here was a transgender ventriloquist and magician, working clubland in the 1970s, who would conquer Vegas and create illusions for Paul Daniels and David Copperfield, and Bernard *fucking* Manning hasn't got a problem with her. We've gone wrong somewhere. #WheeltappersandShunters

Absolutely, terrifyingly mad. This guy shouldn’t be allowed to run so much as a water tap without supervision.

hello I am a deeply unpopular prime minister. In a last gasp attempt to save my own skin my big idea is to launch the least popular policy of an also deeply unpopular predecessor. I am forensic.

Basically the StarmerCard is 100% a play to placate the Fash. No more and no less. Tyranny and racism dressed up in the cloud. Fuck that guy.

I'm going to use a VPN so I can have an ID card of a different, better country.

Apparently there will be a Consultation. Time to open the files from when Blair, Straw and Blunkett tried this shit.

Absolutely appalling, horrible news from Chichester tonight. Thoughts with his loved ones. It's a disgrace that it's still considered "safe" to have concrete walls around pitches at any level of the game precisely because of the risk of something like this happening, and it *has* happened before.

Can't wait for the next instalment of 28 years later, the mindless zombies look more and more terrifying.

apparently being opposed to id cards is ‘middle class’. the ‘centrists’ got on their bullshit right quick. 🙄

Civil liberties is sooo bourgeois, the genuine salt of the earth worker feels wholesome and validated at border checkpoints having their papers checked by an armed guard.

Again, I'm sure this is in no way connected to Labour's sudden frenzy to introduce a compulsory mass digital registration system

FFS

So for them it was a Big Brother scheme. For the NHS, they would have to ask everyone for their ID cards when accessing treatment, to avoid the racial profiling your describe. In the end, the project fell down under the weight of its own requirements. It was either too big or too expensive, or both.

ID cards have got to be used for everything and anything, like proving your right to NHS treatment or your right to work. For the security services, it was about needing to use your ID card when paying for things, so that it can be spotted if you're spending time with known terrorists... 2/

I worked on the ID cards project in the Home Office under Blair. I was charged with coming up with a high-level benefits case for the scheme. Everything you say was discussed at the time back then. To be useful and to justify the massive cost of introducing a universal, compulsory scheme 1/

There is something very cathartic watching it tick up.

Well, at least the governmet's petitions website is getting busy again. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Handle changed. Gotta keep on top of the zeitgeist.

badger.badger.badger is in Glacier National Park and iNaturalist has recorded American Badger sightings in the vicinity. Who wants to go for a hike and confirm this. www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/4...

A solution in search of a problem: ID cards are back on the agenda ... this time with a union jack: 'Brit card'! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Agreed! And that's why we MUST stop voting for the establishment parties. They take the piss, big-style. #Labour, #Tories & #Reform are all varying degrees of bloody awful.

Every day, Keir Starmer and his rotten government find a new way to make life just a bit more unpleasant.

Keir Starmer. Never knowingly competent, right, or justified.

Thoughts with the Hackney council official tasked with trying to get Stamford Hill haredi Jews to get a 'digital ID card'

People who are fine with ID cards lack imagination. They lack the most basic imagination.

Today Labour will be coming third in a by election in Manchester. Typing that. Wild.

Also, given its record, rhetoric and stated intentions: How dangerous would ID cards be under the current Labour Government, especially to almost any minority group and right now worst to any trans or NB person?

I called it: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

The last time they tried to implement ID cards they estimated the cost at about £18 billion. No magic money tree for the NHS though.

Also, inevitably "Our FOI reveals a year of correspondence showing how ministers and senior officials at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) met repeatedly with the anti-rights group Sex Matters while shaping the government’s new digital identities framework"

Oh the Horizon inquiry is going to look like a very, very small fish when the inevitable enquiry into how this piece of overreach gets put in situ gets started in about 15 years time.

“We will save you from the foreigners for a small price of giving all of your data to Palantir!” British Government Next up: “Watch this advert to gain access to a glass of water from your kitchen tap.”

I'll just leave this here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

All the worst folk I knew used to think they were a great idea when they were mooted by Labour years ago.

Seems like a good time to remember that the minister in charge was Andy Burnham

The centrist obsession with ID cards needs to be studied as a pathology.