Another day, another Government consultation, as turgid as it is disingenuous.
This time it is the Cabinet Office announcing plans to share our personal data more widely across Government departments, so our digital identities can be verified when we access public services but “without creating ID cards” (see how they did that?). Delivering on the British people’s priorities, I suppose. No doubt MPs’ inboxes have been filling up with desperate cries from constituents: we demand that Government extends its provision for sharing and verifying our digital identity. By coincidence, a similar demand came from a former Prime Minister in Davos (where else?) this month. Tony Blair (who else?) continued his agitation, now into its third decade, for a global digital identity system, which of course must include our full vaccination status.
It has to be said that the Cabinet Office proposals do not extend that far – yet – though presumably an interface with the existing ‘NHS pass’ software has already been developed. The Government is hardly going to ditch a system which cost (us) so much to develop, and the Government Digital Services unit (GDS) doesn’t come cheap, employing “around 750 product managers, software engineers, designers, researchers, technical architects and other specialists”, dedicated to advancing the U.K.’s “current and future digital identity ecosystem”. Curiously, even though the current consultation is still in progress, the posts of Head of Security and the gloriously named Head of Fraud (£61,710, if you’re interested) have already been advertised. Remember voting for any of this?
The consultation includes several hand-wringing questions about those who may find themselves excluded from accessing public services as a result of these developments, especially those with protected characteristics: can we help Government to understand how such groups might be affected and how they can be assisted? No consideration is given to those who might actively wish to opt out: it will all be so convenient. In any case, the arguments against any dissenting group – the non-compliers, the refuseniks and the actively hostile – have already been well-rehearsed over the last three years: by not embracing your digital identity, you are excluding yourself from accessing public services, just as surely as those health workers made themselves unemployed by exercising their right to decline an injection.
Daily Sceptic readers will know that, like programmable Central Bank Digital Currency, digital identity is one of the cornerstones of the ‘fourth industrial revolution‘ agenda which has completely captured governments across the Western world. Does anyone seriously believe our Government will not implement these latest proposals, irrespective of public opposition? Australia is pressing ahead with its own digital identity scheme; in Canada, PM Trudeau has helpfully made it clear that federal funding for local healthcare services will only be made available to those provinces which fully embrace and implement digital identity systems. If you have the stomach, you will see that our Government website contain page after page setting out the framework for regulation and implementation of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ (already finalised, apparently, after the last public consultation, which attracted 270 responses). Similar information appears on the websites of other governments (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USA, France, Germany, Netherlands et al.) and supranational institutions (e.g. the UN, the European Commission), often using exactly the same words, translated as necessary.
My MP dismisses my concerns about the roll-out of digital identity cards as conspiracy theory stuff. I must remind him of the annual ‘World Government Summit’ which took place in Dubai last week, attended by some 25,000 government and NGO staff from all over the globe. In one address, they were told that “whoever masters the new technologies will be the master of the world!”. I won’t spoil it for you by naming the speaker or doing the accent.
The Cabinet Office’s consultation ends on March 1st.
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As I posted on the the previous article, Biden trying to sell out the USA, this year in the UK is going to turn very ugly. How exactly thus charade of ‘democracy’ xan be maintained is beyond me. It appears that this year they intend throwing everything at us, a real Blitzkrieg.
Fifteen minute cities, digital ID, CBDC possibly, unfettered illegal immigration collapsing public services, and a new pandemic either this year or next. And for the UK continuing and raging inflation.
Very, bloody ugly.
I thought I’d pop over to Brussels this week with it being the kids’ holidays. Then I saw this. Think I’ll go to Antwerp instead.
https://odysee.com/@ZionistReport:6/meanwhile,-in-brussels%E2%80%A6:a
Crikey Mogs. That’s a lot of dinghies.
There’s not even a pretence at developing government policy – just an international agenda of things we’ve seen in WEF publicity, ID2020, etc, being ticked off one by one both by central and local government.
“Fifteen minute cities, digital ID”
The real meaning is “Ghettoization” and papers please.
The same people doing the same playbook as their fathers did 85 years ago.
Even Liz Truss is warning of the ”new world order” here ( 50secs ). Wonder what she would’ve done had she still been PM. This is truly depressing news. Oppose, oppose and thrice oppose.
https://news.sky.com/video/liz-truss-warns-that-authoritarian-regimes-are-trying-to-create-a-new-world-order-12812894
Why do you think that she was disposed of?
I wonder how much of this comes from politicians and how much comes from the bureaucrats themselves.
I’m pretty certain politicians have virtually no power and are mostly distractions for the population. Stuff is basically run by technocrats and bureaucrats. And if a politician wants to cooperate and play along with pre-established plans, great. If he does a good job he’ll get rewarded with a nice position later on.
If the politician wants to resist all the pre-established plans, then they’ll get ignored or swatted away if they are a nuisance.
So digital IDs are just going slowly edge forwards like a slow, relentless bulldozer. Because the bureaucracy wants them and the bureaucracy eventually always gets what it wants.
The sooner that you realise that all Western governmnant are compromised, the better.
Good old Santa Klaus, he’s the gift that keeps giving. Just one cat away from a classic Bond villain!
Digital id is small beer, although possible crucial first step. Fifteen years ago the craze was for Neurolinguistic Programming of local authority employees. The original concept, from the 1970s, was to try to get individual people’s words, thoughts and ideas modified so that they avoid getting irrationally anxious or angry. It was intended as therapeutic device in mental health management and less toxic than medication. In the 1990s it became fashionable for whole organisations, especially in local government, to attend courses designed to make the organisation more likely to comply with central government, by altering the internal language used to make it difficult to express views which dissented from the “official” line. It was highly contentious in that individual people within such organisations unexpectedly started developing mental disorders centred around cognitive dissonance, leading to suicidal thinking, to the horror of the organisation. In the last few years the same ideas have apparently been tried out on the entire population. I don’t think this is going to end well. Perhaps the “nudge units”, presumably controlled ultimately from the Cabinet Office, will eventually be exposed and extirpated, if the individuals in them who realised what is going on don’t go insane first, or rebel, or blow the whistle.
I am quite happy to exclude myself from public ‘services’ so long as I can be exempted from paying for them.
No doubt they will use digital ID to track down illegal immigrants and send them back to where they came from. Yup, that must be what they are for. Sweden has ID cards, also hand grenade attacks.
The truth is that these tools are only ever used to control the already fairly compliant. It’s control for control’s sake.
To comment further, these tools are not generally a problem if you live in a high trust society with a functioning government that identifies with the populace. This is, I imagine, where places like Korea and Japan find themselves (and forty years ago, much of Northern Europe). The irony is that in such countries there isn’t much need for ID or control.
It’s control of the masses ! Minority groups are no threat to the barstewards pulling the strings !!
This is as I see it. All government databases are leaky. With regards to the digital ‘vaccine’ passes I personally know of 5 people who paid for a ‘vaccine’ card that was uploaded to the governments database.
Also what about people who are illiterate, dyslexic, or have learning difficulties and are unable to use a computer? I know many people some of whom are younger than me who are unable to use a computer.
I do not trust any government database to be ‘unhackable’. Think of Julian Assange – how many more are there like him who could hack and manipulate data if they wanted to?
Very scary times.
Someone hacks the system to steal your identity. Rather than just finding your bank account empty, you find you no longer exist at all.
Though arguably that might be the preferred way to go “off grid” in the dystopia, if you can find dustbins to raid.
I’m sad and embarrassed to say that after 68 years on this earth, I’ve finally discovered that that the ruling classes are not actually very bright. Which gives us all hope during any suggested roll out.
I filled in this consultations while back.
it is such a bad document full of leading questions like ‘would you not agree that…’
Cannot believe money is being spent on such rubbish.
It’s worded carefully so you can’t reject the proposition: just comment on how it should be applied to make it better.
I would be happy to be excluded from the tax system without a digital ID.
Increasingly western governments are simply becoming local administrators for the world government in waiting at the UN/WEF. ——They pander to the globalist agenda instead of to the people who voted for them in their own countries. The exception being Trump, and that is why he had to be demonised by the bought and paid for mainstream media.
My submission to the consultation:
The proposed “legislation to support digital identity verification.” is a presumptuous and wholly unwarranted overreach and intrusion into the private lives of every UK citizen drawn into its sinister net. I unequivocally reject any such proposal.
UK citizens are already the most tracked, traced and surveyed citizens in the world, a reprehensible state of affairs in a country that claims to be the crucible of modern democracy. Government is transitory, subject to the vagaries of history and social upheaval.
What is being presented as an administrative convenience, in another time, another place, could be used as an instrument of torture and repression. I grew up in a Europe that was quite capable of accommodating two fascist states in Spain and Greece. The USSR and the Eastern Bloc were entrenched realities where the full force of state bureaucracy was, through the Stasi and KGB, brought to bear in crushing their own citizens.
The collusion between state and private actors in crushing free speech over the the course of the last few years is all the evidence we need to reject this appalling proposal. The collusive relationship between the Cabinet Office, the 77th Brigade and Twitter, Facebook et al has been a national scandal, a shameful abuse of UK citizens’ right to free speech.
The seizure of private funds during the mandate protests in Canada is another example of how a civil service, government and private enterprise can collude to share private information to crush legal and necessary dissent.
You forget the information you hold is ours, and held by you for our convenience, not yours. It is in our remit, not yours, to share that information with whom we please, when we please. Private companies have come to believe the information they hold on us is theirs to do with as they please, such as using it to harass customers with unsolicited marketing or selling it as a commodity to anyone willing to pay.
The idea that civil servants could share highly sensitive, personal data with these vultures is reprehensible. That this information should be available to anyone working with or for the state is deeply disturbing given the current trajectory of western democracies.
Corporate abuse and discrimination by government and private enterprise would be the least of our worries. The unseemly and deeply suspicious haste surrounding this consultation should give cause for concern for any responsible citizen.
Ministers repeatedly denied “Covid passes” would be introduced before they were. In Scotland, the Information Commissioner’s Office found their scheme broke the law. Every aspect of the Covid response has earned the government the disdain and deep distrust of British citizens.
This proposal puts the public at risk of even greater surveillance and threatens to entrench the brutal and deeply authoritarian currents that have recently emerged in British Society.
It should be scrapped.