Greens lead crossparty MP bid to force Keir Starmer to scrap digital ID plans

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1. We certainly won’t need ID cards in the borderless brave new world the Greens promise us in their manifesto!

2. >Greens lead

   [Conservative Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)) (119)

   * [Liberal Democrats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK,_2025)) (72)
   *   [Scottish National Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party) (9)
   *   [Independent Alliance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Alliance_(UK)) (6)
   *   [Democratic Unionist Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party) (5)
   *   [Reform UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_UK) (5)
   *   [Green Party of England and Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales) (4)
   *   [Plaid Cymru](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Cymru) (4)

   The only place the Greens are leading something cross party is in their press releases.

3. I hope they succeed with getting this shut down, because otherwise this shit will be a goldmine for hackers.

   It’ll also be yet another encroachment on privacy.

4. I really wish I could vote for the Green’s, but whilst they’re absolutely right on almost every issue, they just can’t seem to figure out a position on immigration that doesn’t just look like their heads in the sand. Also, they need to separate the religious fundamentalist arm of the party and double down on the actual Green stuff and this kinda stuff.

   They should to Labour what the Reform is to the Tories. A real left competitor that is forcing them to assess how far they’ve fallen from the apple tree.

5. I’ll never quite understand what it is about being young and liberal and advocating for illegal immigration.

6. People really seem to have bought the idea that ID cards will fix illegal immigration. They won’t, they’re not meant to. That’s just something someone alluded to maybe being a possibility. And people want it to badly they’re supporting bad policy in the hope it will deliver…

7. ID cards are long overdue for the UK.
   Public services and the benefits system are wide open for abuse by people who are not entitled to them.

8. I voted green last election, and they are my current front runner, but I really do not like their policy on nuclear dissarmament. I think that would stop me from voting for them, which makes me a bit sad because I like so much about their other policies. My biggest issue with Labour is the digital ID enforcement, and I’ll never vote Tory or Reform, so I fear I may not even vote next election.

9. They aren’t going to though because they don’t want to.

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