Swinney says ID scheme is attempt to ‘force Scots to be British’ — First Minister John Swinney has said he is opposed to a mandatory UK digital ID scheme as an infringement on daily lives.

by Crow-Me-A-River

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  3. Scots are treated second class in the UK, people in Northern Ireland don’t have Union Jacks on their driving licenses but we do, you can bet you bottom dollar the flag shaggers will have it all over this app as well.

  4. I mean, that’s not what I took from it. I took from it that they’re gonna be snooping on us all and that’s creepy af.

  5. Now imagine the reaction if the scheme excluded Scots.

  6. Oooffff what a stretch, good to see he’s keeping limber!

  7. Look I’ll be the first one sawing the border like Bugs Bunny and towing us somewhere sunnier on independence but this is a bit silly, we’ve all got passports that say we’re, administratively at least, British.

  10. Do you have anything else at all going on in life or is doing 6+ posts bashing the SNP and being a Labour apologist on this sub every single day the essence of your being?

  12. We are British though.

    I’ve voted SNP/Scottish Greens.

    I voted Yes.

    I am very much open to independence.

    However the fact is we are British and to imply that it is something forced upon us is insulting to the likes of Ireland.

  13. They are British either way… What a strange thing to say.

  14. My thoughts exactly. Am I fuck putting my name to a “BritCard”. Having a British passport is bad enough

  15. So how did he get to Washington? On a Scottish passport or British🤣 and he stayed at the British embassy as well.

  21. I’m not in support of the ID card, but saying it’s “forcing Scots to be British” is nonsense. It’s about personal liberty, not national identity , and the fact people are trying to go there is embarrassingly self serving.

  22. It’s incredibly off putting to see just how transparent the SNP is becoming with regards to using independence like some shiny keys to dangle.

    Like come on, everything you could pick to criticize about digital ID and you go with this? It’s a complete non-issue.

    If we do eventually get independence we either drop it or update the database to say scot-ID instead. This is beyond trivial.

  23. I feel like if you are a country on the island of Great Britain you would still be British regardless of if you are independent of the UK or not? I get the sentiment though

  25. ID cards exist across Europe. They make accessing public services simple and easy and permit different services to be able to join up records. There are also benefits for easily being able to identify the residence status of all nationals, but that’s not the main benefit.

    Hardly an infringement. Hardly forces you to be something you don’t feel: do passports?

    Nonsense argument in opposition to it.

  26. Jesus Christ, an open goal against the UK government and he still has to make it as some UK vs Scotland rubbish.

  27. We are British though, Scotland is a part of Britain, didn’t he do Geography?

  28. Bit of a stretch there, John. Just appreciate it for what it is. A few more votes for your party. 

  30. they could have called it like “UKard” “United Kingdom Identification Card (UKIC)” or anything else. “Britcard” is named to deliberately appeal to a specific subset of people it seems.

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