Sign this petition against Digital ID for what it’s worth… make the issue politically radioactive.
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I will try – but when, in the past, I have tried to sign such petitions they say that my signing them is not valid till I respond to an e.mail – and the e.mail never comes, even though I have entered the correct e.mail address and checked both my inbox and spam filter.
Still I can, and will, try to sign the petition.
Paul,
It worked for me but it did say, after getting my name, post code and email address that none of this information will be used for any other purpose. Ironic in the circumstances! Because it will if gov.uk could get anything IT to work. Which they won’t but that doesn’t fill me with hope either because there’s (on previous) a good chance that some other poor sod with nothing to do with this could have the rozzers round…
It worked for me & also for SWMBO
1.5 million & climbing
Best X meme of the day has the two young cute coppers showing up at your door saying “we understand that you signed a petition against digital ID.”
https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1971550106555195826
It’s a thing of beauty to watch the counter on that petition going up like a rocket to the moon. Two-Tier Kier and his zombie New Labour tribute act have finally reached the point where everybody just says “no, screw you, we’re not putting up with this anymore”. Future historians will identify this as the point at which the total collapse of the last-ever Labour government became inevitable.
@bobbyb very funny, though I thought there was some pertinence to one of the comments. I’m not sure what I think about it, but it is thought provoking.
https://x.com/MollyJean26/status/1971574647788569022
Can any collapse result in a change of government before 2029?
” . . . I thought there was some pertinence to one of the comments. I’m not sure what I think about it, but it is thought provoking.”
Yeah, that was sort of my thought too. But, you swear an oath, or you sign a petition, and maybe . . . maybe . . . it strengthens the resolve and team spirit of the team? Gives them heart? Getting people to do anything affirmatively at least signs them up.
Signed.
Signed. I don’t suppose the current Government will pay any attention but perhaps those preparing to be the next Government will.
No – no confirmation e.mail for me.
Everyone else gets one – but I, normally, do not. I give my name and my e.mail address – but nothing arrives.
And I do check in my junk e.mail folder.
Fraser,
Tour link makes a grimly amusing point. These petitions are basically theatre from the Gov.
DJ,
Good point. Let’s hope so.
First thing that you will need digital ID for is signing online petitions. Bet you.
[Edit] … and signed, while I still can.
Signed and shared with family and (some) friends.
What HAS Paul Marks been doing?
The absence of an email to him is the mildest possible example of what could happen if Starmer succeeds in bringing this in.
Clovis Sangrail.
I have done all the “bad” things I can – for quite some years.
1,758,507 signatures as of 12:15 Yorkshire Mean Time
Signed, despite my habitual misgivings about the purpose behind having an official State petition site:
Tyrant: “Who are these people who DARE to oppose our nefarious plottings?”
Lackey: “Well, handily, sir, they’ve given us their names and contact details…”
But we can guess how this particular (and long-yearned-for) ambition of the British State will evolve over the coming years:
Now:
‘You can’t get a job and work in the UK without your Digital ID.’
Then:
‘Your Digital ID has been linked to an inappropriate comment on social media. Your internet access is therefore suspended for all purposes for a period of 14 days.’
Then:
‘You can’t book a flight to Australia to visit your terminally-ill aunt. In line with Government policies to deal with the Climate Emergency, only one long-haul flight is permitted in any rolling five-year period, and you had a fortnight in Thailand only three years ago.’
Then:
‘You can’t buy that pack of Cumberland sausages as it would exceed your permitted 250g monthly meat allowance.’
Then:
‘You have now been paid Old Age Pension for the maximum five years allowed. Please click this LINK to book your appointment at your local assisted-dying clinic within the next 14 days.’
@Paul Marks
Please keep going.
Clovis Sangrail.
I will keep going – for what time is left to me.
The preposterous proposal for id is to enable you to get a job, if they’d said it was needed to get state funded medical treatment, housing and other benefits, I might have seen the point.
Runcie Balspune.
As you know – Britain is not Denmark, in Denmark the Social Democrat government may (perhaps) be interested in limiting the number of immigrants who can claim benefits and use public services. British officials and “experts” have no interest in doing this – indeed, in their Frankfurt School “Critical Theory” (which is the opposite of Critical Thinking) way – they would denounce any effort to do so as “racist”.
They also have no interest in limiting the number of immigrants who are working in the United Kingdom.
Remember the OBJECTIVE of the officials, “experts”, and so on – their objective is the destruction of the British nation (which they detest), when you keep in mind their objective – their policies make sense.
And, now, the elected government is on the same page as the elected government – they share the same objective.
Britain is not Denmark
Alas, perhaps Denmark’s Vulnerable Residential Area program should be brought to Mr Farage’s attention.
One of the YouTube channels I follow is BlackBeltBarrister. He seems to be one of the good guys. He has an actual working knowledge of the English legal system.
His opinion of the legality of Digital IDs is here.
Well over 2 million signatures as of 11:15 pm Yorkshire Mean Time
Runcie Balspune – interesting point Sir.
Philip Scott Thomas – yes the BlackBeltBarrister is a good man, but he is trying to work in a legal system that has been fundamentally corrupted.
Both the modern statutes (“laws”) themselves, and the “training” and general culture in which the judges (and other officials) operate in, are perverse – indeed evil.
If Lord Chief Justice Sir John Holt (Chief Justice from 1689 to 1710) were around today – he would enforce a total clear out. The system has gone beyond the point were mild reform will do.
“But conservatives are traditionalists – they defend the institutions” – when the institutions are as corrupted as they now are they become the enemy of the tradition of justice (whose opposite and sworn enemy is “Social Justice”), and, therefore, the institutions need to be removed – root as well as branch.
It is like a house that has totally rotted and decayed – from a distance it may still look like the home it once was, but when one looks carefully it is clear that it is utterly corrupted – indeed a terrible danger to anyone who enters it.
A lick of paint will not do – one needs to remove the corrupted building and rebuild from the foundations on up.
2,216,357 last time I looked, which is quite impressive. Of course they will probably ignore this but it does show a huge amount of disquiet with the current order of things that can be profitably mined politically. The state continues to delegitimise itself.
@paul Marks
I’ve not got my confirmation email either…
Is this some horrific combination of the Biden-era shadow-banning fiasco, coupled with a premonition of life under ID cards?
And there it is. Link has come through. So at least that worked, even if on government timescales…
Signed. Total now at 2.4m
Just realized – this is a government-owned petition site?
Doesn’t that sort of make people pause, when looking to sign a petition that says “government sucks!” in a country where they send cops to your door for funny memes?
The Pedant-General – I do not know.
But I do know that I am recorded as a bad-person – whether that has any connection to this or not, I do not know.
By the way – by the definitions of the regime I AM indeed a “bad person”, I do not dispute this.
2.5 million & still climbing
Well over 2.7 million signatures as of 01 Feb 2025, 9:33 pm Yorkshire Mean Time