How do you feel about being forced to get Digital ID to be allowed to work, or to access government services?

Keir Starmer outright stated his digital ID will be mandatory in order to have a job in the UK before his current term as UK Prime Minister ends

Here in Australia our federal goverment has digital ID already in place (called MyID) as an *option* for accessing federal government services via the MyGov aggregator portal.

Would you 'comply' and get Digital ID if you were told you would lose the right to work without it? Remember a large portion of the population in certain countries (and specific industry segments in some countries) 'complied' with being told they would lose the right to work if they didn't accept getting jabbed for Covid. So a precedent has already been set.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

It is a typical political response to real problems. Here, those of immigration the government seem unable to control, and the so-called "black economy" in which many of the immigrants find themselves trapped by those exploiting them.

Why it has to be "digital" I do not know, but anyway I consider that not the first point.

The first point is the whole concept of enforced Id, be it by card or electronic. Even though politicians are besotted with computers, American generic software and incompetent Japanese specialist products (think of "Horizon").

It is not necessary in the UK anyway, because, and most polticians seem to miss this, UK citizens already have a plethora of labels. UK citizens have two primary national identifiers:

National Insurance Number. Used by employers and H.M.Revenue & Customs for personal tax, pension and other financial welfare matters: most employees are on Pay As You Earn tax arrangements.

National Health Service Number. Used for NHS administration.

These two alone should be sufficient for any ID scheme, and they already exist.

Also:

Hospital Number - possibly, if we have had hospital treatment, at least above minor injury level.

Driving Licence Number if we drive a vehicle on the public roads.

Any additional identifiers used by County Councils, utility providers and employers.

Then we have voluntarily:

Our bank account and card numbers,

Passwords for Internet-based services.

Postal addresses and dates-of-birth, the latter often reinforcing any of the above. The Driving-Licence number uses the holder's D.o.B, in a lightly disguised form.

The big advantage of all this variety is security, just as when we use different user-names and passwords for each of any website accounts we hold.

Ramming it all together in some concoction lauded by politicians, and quite likely not even giving the work to British IT specialists so losing the country yet more cash abroad; risks enormous cost and unreliability, huge and unknown technical and security hazards, breaks the long-standing British resistance to compulsory ID for its own sake; and is very unlikely to do what is hoped.