In my previous article I suggested that the UK’s proposed “mandatory” digital ID, called the BritCard, was a bait and switch psyop.
I posited that the arguments
presented by Keir Starmer’s purported Labour government,
to supposedly justify the BritCard rollout, coupled with the timing of
the announcement, the apparent inability to understand public opinion,
and the lack of necessity for the BritCard, indicated that there was
something amiss with the so-called government’s BritCard proposition.
It
seems to me that the purpose of the BritCard gambit is to frame the
Overton Window for the public debate about digital ID in the UK. People
can accept or reject it, imagining the BritCard represents the totality
of digital ID infrastructure. If the population rejects the BritCard
they may well do so under the misapprehension they have defeated digital ID in the UK.
Subsequent developments have strengthened my view.
Digital
ID is a global policy initiative that governments around the world,
including the British government, are following, not leading. It is the
United Nation’s (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9 which promises to “by 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”
Even
before the ink was officially dry on SDG 16.9, the ID2020 group, tasked
with meeting the “identity” sustainability target, outlined what
achieving SDG 16.9 would mean in practical terms...<<<Read More>>>....
