I’m just so tired of paying taxes and then having to spend more money to support various organisations to fight the government using my money against me. Even sending representatives emails about these issues just feels like spending 5-10 mins of my time to write it, then paying for 5 mins of their time to get back a long version of “yea sure”. I might as well just start setting money on fire instead, same outcome less effort.
Fuck off, I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital ID that I don’t even want!
What’s wrong with my Blockbuster membership card?
What’s wrong with drinking out of your hands?!
I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital
I don’t think that’s how this works. Labour will spend your money how it sees fit and you’ll like it.
Labour will spend your money how it sees fit and you’ll
like it.put up with it, because what else can you do.FTFY
We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are.
Fuck Reeves.
Fuck Starmer.
Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.
I thoroughly dislike the idea of a digital ID, but I still believe it would massively improve the Government’s ability to detect fraud, avoid multi-agency failures and support better data-led decision making - I could conceivably see these changes leading to significantly more than £1.8 billion in savings over a relatively short time-span.
This does not mean I support it in any shape, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that it isn’t only a means of better controlling people, but it could offer real tangible efficiency savings.
edit: On no, the downvote brigade is here and they have no time for reasoned debate.
If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.
No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.
hackers and fraudsters …
How would you know that?
Because no system is perfectly secure. It only takes one foolish mistake by someone with global access to the data, and it’s leaked forever, and they have forever to keep trying.
Jesus fucking christ, imagine all the good the UK could have achieved with 1.8 BILLION fucking pounds
£25 per person. Not that much could be achieved for that, tbh. Everything sounds like a lot on a national scale.
I’d much rather my £25 went on social housing though.
You’re already spending about £1200/year (per taxpayer) on social housing.
We don’t need a new digital id, we need new ventilators for babies and bullet proof vests for soldiers. Or, being a bit more serious, why not use it to extend HS2
£293,000 per meter. You could extend HS2 by 6 km. It wouldn’t even get another stop.
“Is that all?”
In the end it was not, in fact, all.
