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Starmer’s “reverse Midas touch” on digital ID cards The Guardian reports:
‘Reverse Midas touch’: Starmer plan prompts collapse in support for digital IDs
Public support for digital IDs has collapsed after Keir Starmer announced plans for their introduction, in what has been described as a symptom of the prime minister’s “reverse Midas touch”.
Net support for digital ID cards fell from 35% in the early summer to -14% at the weekend after Starmer’s announcement, according to polling by More in Common.
The findings suggest that the proposal has suffered considerably from its association with an unpopular government. In June, 53% of voters surveyed said they were in favour of digital ID cards for all Britons, while 19% were opposed.
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It could also be the electorate was luke warm with the idea of digital ID in theory but once they were given a more concrete proposal they were not happy with it.
Why would Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer care what the level of public support for the measure is?
For many years the government (the bureaucracy) has been working on plans to effectively deal with Civil Disobedience – the plans are all well laid now and can quickly be put into action.
For example, if you refuse to pay taxes – your assets, including the contents of your home, would be taken very quickly.
“Protest in the streets”? – Agent provocateurs would be sent in to commit acts of violence and chant racist things – to give the police an excuse to go in and crack heads.
Police officers who are suspected of being “right wing” have been hunted for years – there are fewer and fewer such officers, most of the police would now obey-orders.
“But at the next election….”
Which will not be till 2029 – with an electorate with a very large number of immigrants in it, if the next election happens at all.
Members of the Fabian Society and the Haldane Society of socialist lawyers have never cared what the public thinks – like Rousseau they hold that what the public says they believe is just the “Will of All”, which is to be despised. The true “General Will” can only be known by the intellectual elite (Plato’s Gold Guardians – or Rousseau’s “Law Giver”), it is unknown to the “reactionary” public, be they Catholic peasants in 18th century France (the great majority of the population – and whom the Revolutionaries slaughtered without mercy), or “Gammons” in modern England.
It is hardly a secret that the agenda of the Collectivist establishment in modern Britain is to, eventually, wipe-out the “gammons” (the British, especially the English, people – even if they are blood-kin of the “educated”) whom they hate and despise.
So why should members of the Fabian Society and the Haldane Society of socialist lawyers suddenly start to care what the public think – when they never have before.
It is interesting that the BBC only last night launched a hit job on the Met Police. Off duty cops having a drink said terrible things about Algerians and Somalis. Imagine! Everyone here knows that Algerians and Somalis enrich every society they enter. It is just racist to suggest otherwise.
Unfortunately for the BBC, an outbreak of diversity happened in Manchester today, and the police did a very good job of terminating the perpetrator with extreme prejudice. He looks like he had something in common with Algerians and Somalis, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Still, cops be racist.
I thought that, to avoid people jumping to the wrong conclusion, and taking action against who they thought were responsible, the racial identity of an offender would be made public. By not doing so on this occasion, will only fuel the fires of those who may be looking in the wrong direction.
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Actually, this is the third and last of the outrages claimed by the BBC.
The first 2 are more substantive — albeit not substantiated: disproportionate violence by a policeman towards an unruly prisoner, covered up by fellow policemen; and breezy dismissal of a rape accusation.
The 2nd charge is especially relevant in the context of systematic rape gang cover-ups by British police.
But no doubt the 3rd charge was reported last because it would have been laughed off by minds unprepared by the 1st and 2nd charge.