Sir Tony Blair, together with ex-Tory leader William Hague, has called on the Government to introduce a digital ID that people can have on their phones that would hold details such as their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work status. Frighteningly, a poll by YouGov (who else?) showed that more than half of respondents supported such an invasive and high-risk surveillance project. The Mail has more.
Sir Tony – who attempted to introduce ID cards while in Downing Street – insisted that new biometric technology would overcome concerns about online dangers.
He and Lord Hague have insisted that a “fundamental reshaping of the state around technology” is needed amid a “radically” shaping world.
Critics hit back at the push for digital IDs, with ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry branding it “a creepy state plan to track you from the cradle to the grave”.
Campaign group Big Brother Watch condemned Sir Tony for “reviving failed proposals for an intrusive mass digital identity system and a database state”.
But a snap poll by YouGov revealed more than half of Britons (54%) would support the introduction of a system of national ID cards in Britain.
According to the survey of more than 4,000 adults today, almost a quarter (23%) said they would strongly support national ID cards, with 31% saying they would tend to support such a plan.
This compared to 13% who said they would tend to oppose the introduction of national ID cards and 14% who said they would strongly oppose such a plan. Almost one in five (18%) replied “don’t know”. …
Outlining their proposals [in a joint article for the Times] for a shake-up of Whitehall – including digital IDs for every citizen – they also called for “a national health infrastructure that uses data to improve care and keep costs down, and sovereign AI systems backed by supercomputing capabilities”. …
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, Sir Tony highlighted how countries “as small as Estonia and as large as India’ are moving towards digital IDs. If you look at the biometric technology that allows you to do digital ID today, it can overcome many of these problems,” he added.
The Government appeared to rule out taking up Sir Tony and Lord Hague’s advice – for now. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “There are no plans to introduce digital ID. Our position on physical ID remains unchanged.”
“No plans” – we’ve heard that before.
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Pubs are finished. I have no desire to visit one anymore.
Sounds like we need to start having illegal raves in the countryside again!
I used to go to my local regularly. I won’t be going anymore though – not when I can only sit outside in the cold and the rain and am l forced to sign in and wear a gimp gag.
No, just no….
*******, the lot of ’em.
Do councils have this power? It’s outdoors by definition. Can they insist on face nappies outdoors in all of their domain? Is this the closet prohibition agenda creeping in?
No they cannot and yet again this site is just printing this bullshit unchallenged. Mask wearing is NOT the law its a recommendation. I cannot wait for some fat entitled covid advisor to come and tell me I need to wear a mask outside at a pub. I hope they enjoy pain!!
You mean it’s not the law outside? But it’s the law inside, right?
No-one can make you wear a mask. They could ask you to leave, but if you say you’re exempt, they risk a discrimination case. Everyone could just say they are exempt. If you think you should be exempt, then you are. Print off one of the many lanyard thingies if you want, but even the govt website says you don’t have to carry one. They have been very clever with how they have positioned the law, which is only guidance and the misleading way the media report it as legal rules.
Three magic words
The government intention has always been to Destroy the pubs and hospitality industry.
Yup.
Fits right in with the globalist control, zero carbon, and prohibition agendas.
The irony is that in both instances, zero carbon and control, public morale and low impact recreation (e.g. pubs) are what’s required. There’s a reason Russia had state funded vodka shops and third world countries have the lower environmental impacts.
What would need to go for environmental reasons are wasteful health services, economies based on buying new items repeatedly, under utilised housing stock etc.
For morale purposes you need bread and circuses. If you don’t give bread and circuses you will eventually lose all control.
Except Soho House and the like will thrive for the elites.
Yeap, along with retail and small business people. Question is, when they have destroyed these sectors of the economy who will they come for next?
Hopefully these areas are having local elections in May.
Have these councils or pubs carried out a health risk assessment before insisting on mask wearing? I asked my MP for evidence of this when they brought the mask mandates in this last year. He couldn’t provide this. He said masks have to be worn to help others feel more confident and safer as shops open up! So how does this apply here, OUTSIDE?!!! FFS! Over to you pub and hospitality industry. How much do you actually WANT us back. How much do you want to survive, because most of us aren’t coming back, being disgustingly treated like biohazards AND paying a premium for the privilege. If they dont stand up to this for the sake of their customers, they will be destroyed. That is the plan.
Yep, it’s well past the time some need to grow a pair, stand up and say “NO”, ain’t going to happen.
“He said masks have to be worn to help others feel more confident and safer as shops open up!”
Shouldn’t it be “those others” that are bearing the cost, rather than everybody else?
If ‘others’ don’t feel confident, they shouldn’t be leaving their homes. To partake and insist that others take measures to ensure they ‘feel confident’ is pure selfishness.
People will just have a booze up round their friends house instead – indoors!
This whole thing is a load of codswallop.
Nonsense. Click bait headline and not representative of the majority of hostelries.
Councils are full of frustrated Tin Pot Nazis desperate to exert power over others. This is their chance and they’re not going to let it go.
We have to rise up! Hit the streets! Do not comply!
This is only going one way unless we stop it.
I wish more people thought like you
My guess is that the pubs are being hit by all of this nonsense because they dont want more people finding out the truth about the war that is going on against the people. When ordinary people start learning of the vaccine deaths and injuries, the treat to our civil liberties and how the elite are exempt from all of these rules and are carrying on as normal we will see more and more angry people. To stop this, they want the pubs either closed or unable to function.
Makes sense
Boris Johnson and his cabinet are a disgrace
And ATL is the report from Ireland that only 1 in 1000 “cases” were attributed to outdoor activity.
This sort of control freakery over pubs has been creeping up for some time. Over a decade ago I saw a report that said publicans were already obliged to display over a dozen signs on their premises ranging from drugs awareness, no smoking, age restrictions and opening hours to the Weights and Measures Act not to mention those involving the sale of food.
Tin pot Hitlers already have plenty of room for manoeuvre.
Local authorities have been asked to be flexible to allow pubs to make use of adjacent public land for tables and chairs allowing al fresco eating and drinking.
Local Live includes an item about a local authority where the town square was pedestrianised a decade ago. A gastropub licenced for service 6am-1am, has been granted permission to erect a marquee on the paved area outside inc street furniture.
But the rules stipulate that as the pedestrianised area is still legally a ‘highway’ all obstacles must be removed outside of licenced trading hours.
That means removing the marquee after 1am and re-erecting it in time to re-open 5 hours later adding 2 hours to the working day (night) for some staff thus making a marginally profitable enterprise loss making.
This apparently is so that residents can continue to benefit from use of the ‘highway’ and specifically mentions use for charitable collections (ie chuggers)
>>>in the early hours of the morning, FFS !
Who said there were no more tin pot dictators ?
Latest from Local Live.
The local authority have done a U-Turn, probably as a result of negative local press coverage, and ruled that this gastropub need not remove its marquee and street furniture for a few hours in the dead of night.
I’m not going back. Was back regularly when they were open again last year but this is too much now. Also my position has hardened and I’m not interested in complying any more. Got to vote with your feet. I’ve text quite a few of the regulars from my local and we are all of the same opinion. Gonna be quiet at my local for sure.
Me too. Mates gardens it is from now on
Speakeasies @home
Why don’t you all take a stand and go and support them, say you are all exempt from face diapers. They will prob be grateful for your support.
There is no law requiring people to wear masks when moving around inside a pub/restaurant or when outside. Any Council official who pretends that this is law should be questioned as to which bit of legislation specifically states this. They should be ignored.
“ There is no law that masks must be worn when walking to a table and can be removed when sat down, even though this will no doubt be the practice as followed in some other European countries. The simple blanket rule is that masks are to be worn. It must be, therefore, that just as the government can pretend PCR testing is effective, it can pretend that if we are sat at a table, whether for 4 minutes or 4 hours, then we are eating and drinking throughout, even when we’re mostly just having a chat. If the clipboard carriers don’t also pretend, then the bars may get a bit livelier than expected.”
https://www.laworfiction.com/2020/09/face-covering-some-pretend-law/
Yes! LaworFiction has been my go-to legal site since the start. I can’t recommend it enough.
Thank you for that. I wasn’t aware of them. Very useful.
Another example of “jobs for the Hi-vis Stasi” council staff, and doubtless the extras they will be able to offer low-paid ersatz “jobs” to when the market is flooded with people who have been forcibly deprived of their work and livelihoods.
Without this rampant idiocy, the pub is no longer a place I would go to anyway. My main purpose was to socialise and drink, jointly and severally, with any of the dozens of people I have known for years, and standing wherever I wanted; not six people in some “bubble”.
A visit is now considerably more unpleasant than one to, for example, any of HMPs, with extra spying, and at a considerable financial cost. To pay £15 or so for a bottle of the house vino, only to be treated as a pox-ridden, masked serf, isn’t my idea of good value.
Pubs generally are stuffed, and any publican who gives in to this terrorism is deluding him- or herself if they think they are doing anything other than fulifilling a government agenda whilst writing their own death warrants.
Part of the problem is the creeps and weirdos in sage who are now running the country cannot understand the concept of a pub and what it is like to have normal human interactions.
Its not legal. Just because ‘over zealous’ councils decide to push it doesn’t mean they can do anything about it. A court case would prove this.
Judiciary are also suspiciously compliant from what I’ve seen.
Just tell them you’re exempt from wearing a face mask! Job done.
It blows my mind that most people I see still wear them. What happened to independent thought and rebelling against stupidity?
I haven’t worn one ever. I had an appointment at local hospital earlier this week for “urgent” annual Diabetic eye screening. I pre empted the scene at reception by telling them when confirming the appt that I am exempt. The next day, the day of the appointment, I was called by an extremely officious lady who wanted to confirm whether I would be wearing a mask. I told her I wouldn’t be. Long story short she told me I could not come to the appointment mask less as I “would be putting the other patients at severe risk.” Needless t say, I cancelled and next day reported the incident to PALS. Still awaiting the outcome of that.
Point being, you have to be pretty darned determined to stand up to the fanatics.
The rules for the funeral of a close relative mean that after travelling 300 miles, I have to stay in a hotel with T&T, attend the funeral with T&T and muzzle, sit alone if not in a ‘bubble’, social distance, no after refreshments. The new ABnormal is destroying everything we know.
Lady I know, her mother died in early December. the “funeral” consisted of her and her children [3] being allowed to stand outside the crematorium and view the process on a computer screen. Totally dehumanising.
Masks/Social distancing/vaccine passports or businesses, jobs and lives?
Erm, that’s a tricky one!
Well, it is for the government, their advisors and experts and of course, the ever present sheep and collaborators.
They can demand whatever they like, enforcement is another question entirely. Think of the speakeasy during the Depression…
Stakeholder Capitalism?
The pubs will soon enjoy the reality of that!
Canadian mask analysis
https://archive.vn/0L5ji
WTF I will no longer be using my local, I will miss it, I’ll miss the companionship and good friends who really only got together on darts nights, all over the area in our so called ‘friendly darts league’. It was a great Friday night, more about socialising than the darts. They were just an excuse for getting together and having a bloody good night with mates from all over the league. Selfish? No just one more nail in the coffin of freedom, so disastrous in my opinion.
I fear this is truly now the edge of that precipice. I would urge everyone not to succumb, but what’s the chances of that eh? I don’t see how landlords can survive this. They probably want it less than me / us but they have been told they will face heavy fines for non compliance. They certainly cant afford that. It will take true ‘pluck’ to stand up to this. i.e. being fined, refusing to pay the fines and so on. This in England? Who would have believed it? The traditional English pub has been murdered, and someone needs to pay, though I suspect the culprits will escape justice. We should mourn that! I am personally devastated, I had been so looking forward to getting that tiny bit of normality and fun socialising scene back. You may think its such a little thing. Well it’s not! Its not as though we could all get together in each others houses every Friday night, even if we were allowed.
Just seen this notice for Brighton and Hove, full video is from Hugo Talks at https://youtu.be/A10YT_A-QKM
Mask down, swig of pint, mask up… mask down, crisps in, mask up again, keep mask on while wandering around beer garden, sit down and take it off again. Have these councils completely lost their marbles?!. Anyway it appears most here are in agreement: Any pub bringing in this rule will face its demise. Vote with your legs and wallet, and move onto the next pub.
Unless of course they all roll over, in which case just keep drinking at home… it’s what we’ve got good at after all (just check your local bottle bank for evidence)!
Which flies in the face of the “Don’t touch your face mask!” rule. Anyone complying with any of this, is part of the bloody problem now.
Interestingly though, here’s a prediction: During lockdown and associated curtailments of interaction between people (very much hindered by the closing of pubs), people have been absorbing more nonsense propaganda coming at us over the airwaves, since during this period we have been replacing social contact with media entrancement, in turn making people more susceptible to the whitewashing of our attitudes and worldviews by all the high-impact messaging from the government.
When people start socially interacting again, I predict that skepticism towards the government’s handling of the pandemic will increase exponentially. What typically happens down the pub? Alcohol takes our guard down and we speak more liberally about our beliefs and are much more likely to reveal our true colours, bemoaning the government and solving the world’s problems over couple of pints. The pub is a cauldron of emerging societal memes and a place where maverick viewpoints are more liberally exchanged. Skeptics wanting to vent their spleens will once again have the opportunity to do so with a few doses of Dutch courage.
This is one of the reasons why proper social interaction is so important. It allows for a more balanced range of viewpoints among people. I think that pubs reopening could vastly tip the scales in that direction. Could this be the reason publicans are being fed breadcrumbs while advertisers willing to peddle the government’s narrative are being given the whole loaf?