Keir Starmer’s ‘North Korean’ digital ID card plans in tatters as two million Brits sign petition

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1. Less than 3% of the population signing an online petition (ignoring the fact that many signatories will be overseas) does not leave a govt policy “in tatters”.

2. Just like the Brexit plan was in tatters after 5.8 million signed that petition.

   You’re not even trying.

3. Why do we even bother with that bloody petition site, they will just say they have no plans to do anything.

   We will just sit back and take it up the arse like the public always does.

4. Like any government give a crap how many sign a petition. Riots on the streets is what makes changes.

   We would still have the poll tax if all people did was sign a petition.

5. Remember when millions of Brits took to the streets to say they didn’t want to bomb Iraq?  The ruling class don’t give a shite what we want.  It’s all smoke and mirrors giving the illusion that the people have power.

6. I don’t agree with the scheme, but ‘North Korean’? Among the many issues we face as a society at the moment is the silly level of exaggeration.

7. If petitions changed anything, they would make them illegal

8. Every working Brit in the country could protest this and it will still get pushed through.

   We don’t have a voice.

9. Starmer has a rager thinking about this. I don’t think you understand this man if you think this is something he’ll back down from. 

10. Hahaha like it’s gonna change anything 🤡🌏

11. Why did Labour and Keir even think this is what would save them?

12. Good, Was a stupid idea anyway.

13. No doubt the whole thing will be managed by a private company and cost an absolute fortrune as a result.

    I’m also against the Online Safety Act as I don’t feel my online details are well, very safe with all these third party companies. I’m just waiting for labour to spin a lie and say it’s created a boom in digital jobs.

14. The petition should be to tell labour to do something about increasing shopping bills, energy companies who continue to lie and hike prices, the countrie’s crumbling infrastructure, the wealth imbalance that continues to worsen for the all and much more, rather than ID cards that will cost money we apparently don’t have.

    Successively governments appear to be completely paralysed and nobody has a strategy or a plan.

15. Keir Starmer’s ‘North Korean’ digital ID card plans ~~in tatters~~ completely unchanged as two million Brits sign petition

    Fixed that for you.

16. Also his mate who runs Palantir has just been named on the Epstein files

17. For a nation of people who’ve been wilfully sending pictures of their breakfast to Mark Zuckerberg for over 20 years, Brits certainly do have some strange online security concerns.

18. Why would an unpopular government think launching an historically unpopular policy would be a success? Such a bad politician.

19. It’s showing the labour party how done they are. Also aiding them in realising the only way they have a chance at survival is getting rid of starmer

20. I imagine this will go about as well as the petition to repeal the online surveillance act did. What I don’t understand is why they’re trying to rush all of this and speedrun the dismantling of their party, it’s just wild to see. It’s suicidal because it’s almost certain they won’t be reelected. I don’t understand why a party would destroy its reputation to this extent on wild policies and laws that will quickly be scrapped by the next opposition government they won’t last long enough to see the effects of.

21. What about his online censorship bill? Now even YouTube videos are banned.

22. “North Korean”. How low can political discourse in this country get. Many countries have ID cards. We should be able to disagree without this utter gibberish.

23. Its a generally a stupid idea. It comes down to the question of do i trust the government with all my data in one place.? I would have to say that do not.

24. I mean the Tories made us use ID to vote and no rebellion happened. This will be the same way. Amazing the conservatives don’t see the hypocrisy here and are calling themselves out.

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