Yesterday saw two announcements. Starmer is to introduce compulsory digital ID cards in the UK, and Tony Blair is put forward by the White House to be the colonial administrator of Gaza for five years.
The political economy of the world appears locked in a vertiginous downward spiral. You don’t have to scratch very hard to find that Tony Blair’s hand is also behind the compulsory ID plan. He has been pushing it for nearly thirty years, and now it comes with added links to Larry Ellison, Palantir and Israel.
The government will be able to garner and centralise knowledge of everything about you. Every detail of your financial transactions, your DNA, your family, your medical records, your education, employment and accommodation. It will be a very short time before the digital ID is linked to your social media accounts and your IP access to monitor your browsing.
There is already the intention to control us through our access to financial services. I have spoken with one of the women charged for protesting outside the Leonardo factory in Edinburgh. She has had her bank accounts cancelled – simply losing the money in them – and cannot open a new account. You may recall they tried to debank Nigel Farage. The campaign to defend Julian Assange suffered multiple banking cancellations.
The desire of the state to control people politically through their ability to carry out ordinary transactions is not in doubt. It is demonstrated. Once you have a compulsory digital ID linked to transactions – which will follow very swiftly, I am quite certain – they will be able to simply switch off your ability to pay for anything. Add this to a digital currency which tracks all of your expenditure – all the key elements of which are already installed – and total control will be in place.
Starmer is trying to dress up a digital ID as an immigration control – whether you support immigration control or not, the notion that it will make a significant difference is nonsense. Landlords, employers, banks and lawyers already have to check the ID and status of their clients. For those bent on evasion, one more piece of bureaucracy will make little difference. It is the law-abiding who will be enmeshed in the system of control.
Increases in state surveillance and restrictions on personal freedom are always falsely framed as protection against a terrible threat – Paedophiles or fraudsters or immigrants or Russians. Yet despite an ever shrinking area of personal freedom, none of these real or invented threats ever actually recedes.
Starmer is the most unpopular PM in history. Attempting to force through this deeply unpopular measure is going to cause him real difficulties in parliament. The calculation is that Reform will oppose the measure on libertarian grounds, and that this will allow Starmer to show himself as tougher on immigration than Reform. The breathtaking cynicism of this is typical of the Starmer government, which believes in nothing except their own power.
As for Blair being made effectively Governor of Gaza, this is so sickening as to be beyond belief. The man who killed a million Iraqis on the basis of lies about WMD, who has made hundreds of millions of pounds through PR services to dictators, whose Tony Blair Institute has drawn up “Gaza Riviera” plans for Trump, and who has been discussing with western oil companies the takeover of Gaza’s gas field, is touted to adminster the mass grave which Gaza has become.
In any reasonable world this would be impossible. The degeneration of western society is profound. There are no ethics in play beyond the dominance of power, wealth and greed. Blair manages to embody these in one person.
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It says everything about the British ruling class that grotesques like Blair, Mandelson and Sir Keir are its most revered and unifying figures; cherished across the great conservative/ centrist divide. In the British establishment hive mind, transforming Labour into a second Tory party far outweighs innumerable dead Arabs, monstrous personal greed or the victims of a Mossad paedophile syndicate.
As for ID cards, it’s okay – Paul Mason says if you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to fear.
“The government will be able to garner and centralise knowledge of everything about you.”.
But it won’t be able to keep it secure (except from you).
“What Fresh Hell is This?”
Perfectly put, truly stomach turning.
If Your Party is to stand for anything, and to meet the needs of this country and these times, it must stand against each and every element of the above and do so fearlessly and loudly.
As well as presenting a fresh, democratic approach to the county’s domestic affairs, it must reject and oppose the moral squalor that this country’s foreign policy has fallen to, and to replace it with a genuinely ethical policy that demands justice and a satisfactory and sustainable resolution for the Palestinian people alongside reform of the UN and a strengthening of and a return to international law.
If they are to stand for anything then they must stand for that.
” … Tony Blair Institute has drawn up “Gaza Riviera” plans for Trump … ”
And if this is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, then Blair’s name should be added to the list of those accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, and when the reckoning comes, as surely it must, he should be arraigned in the dock along with the rest of his foul company.
I predict this digital ID won’t happen : It wasn’t in Labour’s manifesto; he’s announced it in parliamentary recess, and opposition parties don’t like it. The French national identity card, is literally a physical card(safer) and importantly, it is non-compulsory.
The UK’s digital ID won’t actually do anything to limit small boat crossings either – its stated aim – those people crossing have no ID and many disappear into the black economy, where ID isn’t even required.
Watch the entire elite : Politicians , spooks; military, civil servants find some way to opt themselves out too… on national security grounds. A ‘plebs only’ insecure app that leaves people wide open to state snooping and hackers?
Paul Mason is arguing for digital ID on X. He wants to deanonymize the internet.
Paul Mason, a guy who shares ideas via email with spooks, yet reportedly, didn’t use two-factor authentication on said email account. Allowing alleged Russian hackers, either to phish him via fake email, or to guess his password? Hardly Mr Cybersecurity, is he.
The SNP opposes digital ID.
John Swinney : That aside, by calling it BritCard, the Prime Minister seems to be attempting to force every Scot to declare ourselves British.
I am a Scot.
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Irish republican community in N.Ireland?
It’s clear that for totalitarian societies privacy is an anathema. Fortunately we live in an open society where all our data is shared with Palantir and other Mega-corps who support our government’s aim to protect us from identity theft.
With regard to Anthony Blair becoming the Viceroy of Gaza one could only exclaim:
Dear God, what have Hamas done to deserve this ?
It is indeed stomach turning, and as usual cogently expressed by Craig.
May I respectfully submit we will soon have other, more dangerous fish to fry, long before these two ugly developments materialise?
An attack by Israel/the US on Iran before this year is out seems probable. To it (or shortly afterwards) might be joined some greater escalation against Russia.
None of this is in our interests as citizens, but what the hell.
The race to war before we the people can organise sufficiently to eject these criminals from power appears to me to be unstoppable.