Soon your neighbour, your colleague, and that bloke in the pub will all sound like NPCs reciting the gospel of Digital ID.
And if you’re happy to trade liberty for ignorance, don’t whimper when your life resembles Kim Jong-un’s playpen with a Tesco Clubcard.
Welcome to Brave New Blighty, where your papers are digital, your wallet is monitored, and your freedom is conditional. Great Britain is teetering on the brink of ushering in a national digital ID system.
Yes, the same Britain that once prided itself on civil liberties, privacy, and a general disdain for government overreach. Now, our political class, like a dodgy Carry On character with a penchant for surveillance, is dangling the shiny promise of “convenience” while quietly sliding the handcuffs into place.
Think back, if your memory hasn’t been wiped by the Ministry of Health. During the pandemic, we got a taste of digital control with those charming little vaccine passports. Want to enter a venue? Flash your app. Want to fly, work, or exist in polite society? Better have your QR code scanned, jab status verified, and obedience levels recalibrated.
That little COVID experiment was a not-so-dry run for a far more sinister project.
The digital ID being proposed is not some benign bit of modern admin. It is, quite frankly, a blueprint for technocratic control. It won’t stop with your name and date of birth. Oh no.
Soon, your biometric data, spending habits, health records, social media activity, and ideological alignment could be packed into your shiny new BritCard.
Want to buy a pint or a sausage roll? Better scan in first. Had too many pints this week? Sorry, your cholesterol’s high and your carbon credits are low. Try again next month.
Now imagine the government deciding you’ve said something “hateful” (which is Newspeak for “unpopular”). Suddenly, your car won’t start. Your social media is locked. Your travel rights revoked. It’s not a stretch of the imagination. This is a roadmap, and we’re already halfway there.
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