What has happened to Keir Starmer's push for full digital ID in the UK since he was ousted?

I am not sure if it was ever as tyrannical as you make it seem, but it would have applied to everyone "workers" or not, however you define a "worker".

It was dropped more for cost reasons than anything else; but there are plenty of ordinary people who cramp their lives to being able to live with little or no cash. They don't need wild beliefs about WEFs to encourage them, but are simply gadget-freaks welded to their portable telephones and who cannot understand the potential costs to British society at large of losing cash.

In fact, cash is becoming more popular again, especially among people who have little money to spare so use it to ration their spending.


The idea of compulsory ID cards or equivalents has long been anathema to most Britons although there are now more who think there is no reason to refuse them.

After all, we have a string of reference-numbers: National Insurance number, NHS numbers (and Hospital Number is you have treatment in an NHS hospital), employee number, driving-licence number based on your date-of-birth, bank numbers....

The argument is that these specific identities allow us to do things or obtain services for our own benefit; whereas a universal identity system implies having to be able to prove who we are for any reason, and cannot be trusted.


The real danger would come if some bright spark persuades Government to introduce a system that uses a single number for all official purposes; on an Internet that is becoming increasingly, very dangerously insecure and open to attack.

That's news to me. Please tell me where you sourced this.