Wild times in England right now.
Keir Starmer is pushing for Digital ID in the UK and we’re already seeing other countries raise their eyebrows in wanting to join in…
If you’re not paying attention to this, you should be, because it’s 1984 on amphetamines.
They’re selling it as convenience which is always fun.
“Streamlined services!” “Reduced fraud!” “Digital innovation!”
All the buzzwords that make technocrats salivate and regular people zone out and the guise is obviously about curbing illegal immigration lol, I mean of course it is.
But they’re not telling you some VERY important things.
A Digital ID doesn’t just replace your passport. This will become a complex tracking system that links every aspect of your existence to a single, government controlled identifier.
Bank account, medical records, employment history, travel patterns, social media activity, purchasing habits. All of it tied to one digital profile that follows you everywhere. Every transaction monitored. Every movement logged. Every interaction catalogued.
Think your VPN and privacy settings protect you? Cute. When your Digital ID is required to access basic services, anonymity becomes illegal.
Look at China’s social credit system. Look at how Digital IDs in other countries expanded beyond their original scope. The infrastructure for total surveillance doesn’t get built overnight.
It’s like when a client just tacks on something else for you to work on, even though it isn’t billable.
Before you know it. It all gets normalised through incremental convenience upgrades.
“But I have nothing to hide!” you say.
Great. Neither did the people who later found themselves killed for the wrong political opinion, the wrong association, the wrong algorithm flagging their behaviour as suspicious.
Once this system exists, there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle. Digital totalitarianism doesn’t announce itself, you’ll wake up and just know it has become a Tuesday on repeat until you die.
The call for people to wake up started yesterday.
Stephen Walker.