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 administer 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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On the theme of hypocrisy.
“Sir Kier Starmer has reinstated the Labour whip to two rebel MPs after keeping them out in the cold for more than a year. John McDonnell and Apsana Begum had the whip suspended in July last year after they voted against the Government on the King’s speech, along with five of their colleagues” Daily Mail.
If they accept this then they have lost any credibility they may have had and are total hypocrites.
Corbyn next ?
The Electronic Intifada has provided an exposition, well worth watching, of the “recognition of statehood” of Palestine by a number of Western countries, using Australia as a good example. Spoiler: the rights of Palestinians are not mentioned, only Israeli ones. The “sovereign state” is told that it may not give power to Hamas. Nor is the genocide mentioned. Ali Abunimah’s passionate disgust is apparent thoughout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nen7UWx-1ME
This so called digital I’d card will actually be a file opened on every UK citizen, that file is then filled with any and all information that can be found about you. Then the government says that to do certain things or get access to certain things you must give that organisation your currently valid ID. Then the government can, if it decides you’ve done or said something it doesn’t like invalidate your digital ID. The government will have total control over you. I think this has already happened in China?
I think it’s North Korea also.
Digital credit score is in China. Mind of the same thing.
We need to all vehemently oppose this.
“I think it’s North Korea also.”
Is there actually any evidence for this, apart from Western state-sponsored NGO’s and other propaganda outfits?
Bayard
The AI answer:
There is a widespread belief that a centralized score dictates every citizen’s standing in society. China has a social credit system that evaluates the trustworthiness of individuals and businesses, but it does not operate a single, nationwide social credit score as commonly perceived. It has been clarified that citizens cannot be punished solely for having low scores.
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The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is a big driver behind this digital ID plan. This was his view about the unvaccinated:
Former prime minister Tony Blair has said it is “time to distinguish for the purposes of freedom” between people who have and have not received a Covid-19 jab.
he said it makes “no sense at all to treat those who have had vaccination as the same as those who haven’t”.
The former Labour leader was reacting to a report published by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change which says “vaccine status matters” and champions the idea of health passes “to allow citizens to prove their status in a secure, privacy-preserving way”.
Proposing the health pass system be used both at home and abroad, the report said: “With this ability to securely prove vaccination status, we can move beyond blunt, catch-all tools and align with other countries by removing certain restrictions for the fully vaccinated…
So he wanted to restrict freedom based on whether someone had made a personal health decision in the ‘correct’ way. I was vaccinated, but I perfectly understand those who, for whatever reason, chose not to be. And I respect their right to make that decision.
Some people had very bad reactions to covid jabs, some even died, it’d be perfectly understandable if their relatives refused after experiencing that. And Blair wanted to penalise that behaviour.
“There is a widespread belief …”. There you have it science by consensus, or BS in old money. Just because a lot of people believe something doesn’t make it true. Religious ‘miracles’ are one example, WMD is another.
AI = GIGO.
The evidence is biased. China’s much-demonised social credit system is not used mainly by law enforcement, but by civilians, people who personally know the persons whose social credit they seek to affect, for good or ill. The good — rehabilitation of disreputable people — is never mentioned in Western denunciation propaganda. Neither is it pointed out that social credit’s minor punishments e.g. exclusion from some shops via facial recognition, or from the high speed train network — is a replacement of custodial sentences. In Amerika, three minor strikes and you’re IN — jail for a lengthy term!
Not saying no bad state surveillance or persecution takes place in China: it does, e.g. Falun Gong cult is targeted. But whereas the Chinese trust their social credit system, UK’s digital ID is a tool wielded by a fascist regime proven to have evil motivations, driven by Starmer, a WEF tool.
“China’s much-demonised social credit system is not used mainly by law enforcement, but by civilians, people who personally know the persons whose social credit they seek to affect, for good or ill. ”
In that respect it is the same as the feedback system that eBay uses to discourage sharp practice.
They point to Denmark’s use of digital ID..
But Denmark is nothing like the UK. Denmark has a written constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights – Danmarks Riges Grundlov . And although amended in 2014 – resulting in protests – Denmark’s Freedom of Information law establishes a “right-to-know” principle, meaning the burden of proof lies with the government to justify withholding information.
The UK is ultra secretive. MI5 have been admonished recently for lying under oath – why hasn’t the DG ,Sir Ken McCallum, been forced to apologise or resign? Zero accountability. As Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, covered up a scandal involving the illegal retention of datasets on citizens who’d been convicted of no crimes. The govt jealously protects agencies from scrutiny as though they work for the agencies and not the people who elected them. There was a story some time back in which the Govt was using the BBC websites to deliver targeted malware to certain IP addresses. This is why any govt app in the UK should be instinctively treated with suspicion.
I really hope Your Party seeks advice from privacy and rights experts, on how things could be improved in the UK. Incorporating these(below) would be a good start, they were in the 2017 Lib Dem manifesto:
• Scrap Prevent
• Roll back state surveillance powers by ending the indiscriminate bulk collection of communications data, bulk hacking, and the collection of internet connection records
• Oppose attempts to undermine encryption
• Notify innocent people who have been placed under targeted surveillance where this can be done without jeopardising ongoing investigations.
I know I’ve mentioned this before but it’s worth repeating. Andrew Neil tore into Tim Farron, the then LD leader, over notification, in his election special interview. But notification is important for reining in surveillance, because it allows it to be quantified. Authorities are far less likely to abuse powers if they have to disclose where they’ve been used. It’s therefore an important check and balance.
By the way everyone, good news!
I think they’ve switched tack. Apparently it’ll be called a Digital Identity Card, or DIC for short.
So the general public will be required to flash their DIC’s in public. On arbitrary command by officialdom, a bank teller or even on their very doorstep by an Amazon courier.
Of course if you don’t care for that, you can now tell Starmer & Co to shove their DIC’s up their arse.
You will be required to keep your Digital Identity Card in an Handheld Electronic Device, no doubt.
Starmer will soon be advertising for the role of DIC inspectors.
I’m not personally religious, but theologians could probably make a a good case for Tony Blair being a contender as the antichrist.
According to Revelation 13:16-17, the mark of the beast will serve as a means to buy and sell goods within his system, making it essential for economic survival. This mark, placed on the right hand…
We’ve already got contactless payments. How long until they microchip people, like pets?
The beast will appear on a “kingdom rising out of the sea” that “is not humane, civil, or supportive of its citizens.” …reads increasingly like Blighty!
Meant humorously, I think..
“So the general public will be required to flash their DIC’s in public. On arbitrary command by officialdom, a bank teller or even on their very doorstep by an Amazon courier.”
And the police. Just thinking about the Defend our Juries protests against the proscription of Palestine Action, where the police are desperately trying to identify arrestees so they can be packed off on street bail, and the arrestees are refusing to give ID and insisting on being taken to a police station to be processed properly, to maximise the logistical problems for the police. Am I being paranoid or is there a connection there with decision to bring this compulsory ID in? Wonder what the penalty for not flashing your compulsory digital ID on demand will be? Given the demographic of that protest it might be “we’ve nicked you for being a terrorist, now we are also nicking you for not having a smart phone”.
Everything, absolutely everything will be tied to a person’s digital ID. Bank accounts , home owned, electronic cash, access to services, right to travel, Internet activity, health records, DNA,, mobile phone, public facial recognition systems – everything.
The totalitarian dystopia horror envelopes and like the people of Gaza we are rats in a trap.
Only a fool would think otherwise. 1984 is here.
Shit really finds it’s own level, Blair will fit in perfectly with Trumps whitehouse.
Trump, Blair, Netanyahu. A holy trinity for the new age. Hallelujah !
The scum always rises to the top.
You have to wonder about the timing of this ‘ fresh hell ‘. Is Starmer/Labour in a competition with amoebic dysentery to see who/what can be the most unpopular?
Coming on the heels of the Rayner/Mandelstein(sic)/McSweeney * scandals *, dropping this shit-bomb now makes zero strategic sense.
Or maybe it does? If, eg it’s designed to deflect from those previous and current screw-ups- which it has- it may have some utility: still seems like a strange way to go about it though; like ” almost the whole country hates me, so let’s give the minority who don’t reason to hate me too”. That seems to be working; well, with the exception of Security Services * grass * bag-of-scum Paul Mason n his Neu Labour slimeball, misanthropic ilk: and, of course, future overlord of the Gaza Gated Community prime beach-front investment opportunity- Toad Blair, who has slithered out from the fetid, murky undergrowth that has become his preferred habitat to give this latest attack on people’s autonomy and civil rights his cock-eyed imprimatur
Alternatively, it could be that Starmer knows his days as PM are numbered and is trying to enact/inflict as much of the Globalist/WEF-informed agenda he was installed to advance as possible before he gets slung?
Whatever the motivation, this outrage must be emphatically resisited/rejected. Otherwise, it will be another link in the ever-tightening chain the control freaks and aspiring Little Napoleon autocrats are in the process of placing around our lives.
Well.
Many of us knew Blair wouldn’t give up on this.
For once I agree with everything in. Craig Murray post.
Vehement opposition to this is a national duty no matter what political stripe you are.
I’m sure the commies will be loving this. They are anti freedom.
Don’t be daft, it’s the fascists that are anti-freedom.
PS you don’t think that Bliar is a communist do you?
Unanimous opposition in Northern Ireland Assembly to the “Britcard” proposal.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/rare-unity-at-stormont-as-all-parties-reject-keir-starmers-brit-card-digital-id-plans/a666521539.html
That’s quite the achievement. Never mind almost a century of sectarian violence, they can all join together in hating Starmer.
A truly miraculous achievement by the Ultimate Empty Suit. He’s achieved something, albeit accidentally, that no statesman has come near to in over a century – to get the Billy Boys and the Shinners to actually agree about something. That’s Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize down the shitter then.
A BBC report that Harrods has warned customers their personal data may have been taken in an IT systems breach:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d70d912e6o
Sylvia Pankhurst was the greatest campaigner against colonial hypocrisy.
When her mother and sister threw her out of the Suffragettes ‘Sylvia set up her own group. She campaigned not just for the vote for women, but for all workers’ rights and help for the poor.
When the 1st World War broke out, Emmeline and Christabel gave up the suffragette campaign and they gave their full support to the war effort. Sylvia, on the other hand, spoke out against the war, which she said was a senseless waste of lives. She set up food kitchens for the poor in East London and started a toy factory which took on unemployed women. She also set up legal advice centres for women to help them get decent allowances whilst their husbands were away fighting. She helped to support and hide conscientious objectors.
Sylvia was one of the very few voices calling for peace. After the Russian Revolution, she visited Russia and encouraged them to pull out of the war. Back in Britain, she joined the Communist Party, but as she refused to be controlled and criticised Lenin, they threw her out.
Sylvia continued to be the black sheep of the family in her private life too. Whilst still unmarried, she moved in with a man (an Italian anarchist). She didn’t care what “polite society” thought, or what the newspapers were saying about her for living “over the brush”. Emmeline felt hugely embarrassed and was infuriated with her daughter. In 1927, at the age of 45, Sylvia gave birth to a son, Richard, and she refused to tell anyone who the father was. The newspapers were scandalised once again. For Emmeline, this was the last straw. She never spoke to Sylvia again and refused to even see the baby. This rift was never mended; Emmeline was in poor health and died the following year.
In the 1930s, Sylvia was active in speaking out against both the European empires and against the rising tide of Fascism. When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, she campaigned in support of the Ethiopian leader, Haile Selassie.
After the 2nd World War, which was fought in the name of freedom, Sylvia said it was hypocritical of Britain to continue holding on to its colonial empire. She called on all European powers to give independence to their colonies. The British secret service was asked to look into ways of “muzzling the tiresome Miss Pankhurst”.
Sylvia had always felt an affinity with Africa. At the age of 74, she moved with her son to Ethiopia. There she wrote about African art and culture. She set up a newspaper and raised money for Ethiopia’s first teaching hospital. She became a friend of Emperor Haile Selassie. She remained a champion of human rights and feminism right to the end.
Sylvia died, aged 78, on 27th September, 1960. After being given a full state funeral, she was laid to rest in front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, the only foreigner to be buried in the section reserved for patriots.
(Sylvia’s son, Richard, stayed in Ethiopia. He became a professor and writer. He received an OBE in 2004. When he died in 2017, he was described as “one of Ethiopia’s greatest friends”.).’
A remarkable woman indeed. She was a contemporary of Bertrand Russell, and according to AI, while her politics were more radically socialist than Russell, there were occasions for meetings between them. The Leeds Convention of 1917 which involved socialists and democrats from the Independent Labour Party, and in 1928, Russell supported the Women’s International Matteotti Committee, an organization founded by Pankhurst to protest political repression in Italy. There’s a book about her, Rachel Holmes’ Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel (ISBN 1408880458).
The Pankhursts are an interesting example of divergent politics within a family, although as Zeinab Badawi writes in An African History of Africa (2024), Emperor Haile Selassie was more popular abroad than at home. I think dissent was cruelly repressed in Ethiopia during his long reign, contributing to the ‘wax and gold’ cultural habit of veiled criticism.
Fascinating stuff Alyson.
Thank you.
Another move towards authoritarianism: Starmer asks a Conservative peer to write a bill blocking judicial reviews by environmentalists:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/27/starmer-asks-conservative-peer-write-planning-bill-block-judicial-reviews
Of course Starmer always wanted to do this, firstly he’s a control freak, secondly he hopes to use the present anxiety about illegal immigration to his advantage and win back votes from Reform.
But he’s miscalculated, because looking at the map on the petitions website, the strongest opposition (percentage of people signing the petition against digital ID) is in Reform-supporting areas.
I’d imagine it will need primary legislation: An Act of Parliament and Acts of Devolved Parliaments.
With HoC opposition parties against, and many Labour MPs opposed; the SNP and Plaid Cymru against, and Sinn Féin saying it breaches the Good Friday Agreement, it’s probably DOA.
It should be non-compulsory. Making it mandatory, when it wasn’t in the manifesto is supreme arrogance.
Yeah, every devolved or regional party such as the SNP is unanimously against this. So it’s also not just Sinn Fein in Ulster but all the Unionists too.
Apart from anything else this is low hanging political fruit. A popular & competent government might face controversy on this. Never mind a corrupt, inept shower with a lower favorablity rating than Lucifer.
From observation of Starmer, his time horizon seems to be a week or two at most. I doubt he’s even considered whether this ID proposal could really be introduced, let alone all the stuff that it might make possible. Most likely in his mind it’s just a ruse to have Reform oppose it on traditional grounds, then paint them as having thwarted a magic bullet against immigration. Of course he’ll have been lobbied by less stupid people: IT interests hoping for more billions coming their way and spooks smacking their lips at all the possibilities.
“secondly he hopes to use the present anxiety about illegal immigration to his advantage and win back votes from Reform.”
More likely is that it was pretty obvious from the start that Labour were not going to win the next election and Starmer looks increasingly like a gun for hire, so his job is to push the policies that really matter to the ruling elite, like fighting Russia and increasing state control of what was always going to be an increasingly disaffected population.
“…like fighting Russia”
This. The British elite have invested too much blood and treasure in this Obama/Nuland/Biden project to walk away. Having a Labour leader who would have had no or little interest in Ukraine, was unacceptable to them. Oliver Eagleton, in his political biography, The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right , implies Starmer is a functionary of the security state, and many here no doubt believe that’s what he is.
He clearly has no natural affinity with the Labour party or its values, its history etc. There is no ideological underpinning to Starmerism either- it’s just reactionary conservatism repackaged. This is someone going through the motions until out the other side, looking uncomfortable doing so, as he rightly should. After politics would anyone be surprised if he becomes fabulously rich: from paid speeches; a sketchy huge payment for his memoirs -that no one will read – and likely an advisory role at some US investment bank – his appointment for which, will make no sense whatsoever.
The fighting Russia part is unconvincing beyond a certain point, simply because it’s futile. Particularly vis-a-vis Ukraine. Which is clearly doomed.
The internal control aspect is far more likely, given how brittle and unpopular the regime has become. They can’t win people over, nor will they cede power. So suppression it is.
As for Starmer’s background, almost certainly so. No-one with his backstory would get security clearance. If he wasn’t some spook f*ck.
Have you seen this today :
Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says – Guardian, Luke Harding in Kyiv
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/27/putin-preparing-to-attack-another-european-country-zelenskyy-says
The concern has to be, that in a last gasp act of desperation, Ukraine stages a false flag drone attack on Poland, Denmark or Romania. There is one thing absolutely certain: Russia wouldn’t attack a NATO country, triggering Article 5, then seek to deny it.
I’m also skeptical over the ‘impossible to shoot down’ drones that are supposedly flying over Danish, Polish and Romanian air bases. How does any of this serve Russian interests by bringing NATO into this? It would however suit Ukraine, who have sophisticated EM shielded drone technology, thanks to allies and their own expertise.
The Guardian also presents tomorrow’s Moldova election as a choice between two paths: pro-Europe or pro-Russia
And neither really represents freedom.
“Russia’s war in Ukraine sent shock waves through Moldova’s fragile economy. Situated just a few hours’ drive from Odesa, Moldova has taken in more Ukrainian refugees per capita than any other country, straining its healthcare system, public services and infrastructure. Inflation spiked to 40% as trade with Moscow and Kyiv collapsed.
They talk about Russian interference, but you can only imagine how much interference from the EU is required to defy political gravity and keep the pro-EU people afloat with that social and economic backdrop.
Full circle.
Luke Harding, MI6, Skripal, Ukraine.
@ Goose
The bloody clown can do what he likes NATO had three years to prepare, they’ve done fuck all save stunts and group therapy sessions. Whilst being less numerous & equipped now than 2022.
As for Moldova even that isn’t enough, if the mass arrests and party bannings by the Quisling Sandy regime are anything to go by.
“The fighting Russia part is unconvincing beyond a certain point, simply because it’s futile.”
What’s unconvincing about futility? Most of what Starmer does is futile. There is no doubt that he is dead set on war with Russia. Why is he doing it, he’s not using logic, is he? If he thinks that he can pick a fight with Russia without US agreement and then Daddy Trump will rush in and save the UK when they get horribly mauled “because Article 5”, he’s either mad or deluded. Much more likely that he is only acting under orders.
The petition to shove it up Starme’rs arse – no Ukrainian rent boys needed this time, is close to 2 million.
“So the Britcard will be run on an App made by Multiverse, a multi national company founded by EUAN BLAIR!
Yep, son of the four-faced war mongering LIAR, Tony Blair.
His shares are about a £375m.”
https://nitter.poast.org/AuntieBoooog/status/1971630669114888198#m
The whole family is corrupt. Shades of the Bidens.
Not confirmed Multiverse will have any involvement. It’s just a rumour.
In opposition, Labour promised to pursue and recover funds, after the Tories outrageously handed Covid-19 PPE contracts to friends and cronies. It happened under the emergency measures that scrapped the normal tendering process, and handed award decisions to ministers. Matt Hancock, famously handed a £30 million contract to his former neighbour. Labour seem to have gone very quiet about this issue in power.
So, it’d be pretty brazen if they did hand such a contract to Multiverse. As for his shares, it’s hard to understand why a company that links applicants to jobs and has made huge losses, was valued so highly. There is seemingly no product they’re selling?
“So, it’d be pretty brazen if they did hand such a contract to Multiverse.”
Brazen is how it goes these days in the Tory party; red, blue, yellow or tartan, they are all the same. They do it because they can, like dogs licking their balls.
Indeed, B . That arrogant sense of impunity from consequence for behaviour that would once have been considered punishable by parliamentary if not legal/criminal censure is the defining characteristic of the current Political Class in the UK – and beyond.
Just two of the most egregious examples of recent times are Blair walking away with barely a slap on the wrist for the total lies of Iraq WMDs * justifying * the invasion of that country and the subsequent death of a million+ of it’s people ( and into a vastly lucrative role as, well, whatever the f**k shit that he does )
Not to be outdone in the ‘ WHAT ! are you f**kin’ kiddin’ me on? ‘ stakes, Sturgeon strolling away unscathed from her central role in the plot to politically assassinate Alex Salmond; lying to the * Scottish * Parliament and despite her despicable grandstanding and posing as Saviour of the NATION ( Florence Nightingale in £300 shoes ) sending unwell OAPs to Care Homes during the Covid hysteria; many of whom never survived that criminally negligent/stupid policy. She too going on to amass a fortune in her- nominally- Post-Politics career.
” Brazen “, like ” Democracy ” have been rendered meaningless terms by contemporary political bad faith and criminality.
” Rules Based Order ” anyone?
” Rules Based Order ” anyone?”
Indeed, there are not many of those rules, but “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” is one of them.
Blair’s into everything.
“Blair’s institute. TBI is pushing a single national data library and a new “front door” to patient records, embedding Britain’s health system within Oracle’s infrastructure.
The cash has turned TBI into what insiders call a “tech sales & lobbying operation for Oracle.” Its agenda mirrors Ellison’s global push to unify national data sets. He has been explicit about what matters most:
“The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data,” he said, though it was too “fragmented” at present.
Two weeks later, TBI published “Governing in the Age of AI: Building Britain’s National Data Library”, echoing Ellison and describing the NHS as “fragmented and unfit for purpose.”
The NHS dataset is uniquely valuable. Unlike anything in the US or Europe, it contains comprehensive health records dating back to 1948. Its potential commercial value from drug development to genome sequencing is estimated at £10bn a year”
https://nitter.poast.org/wikileaks/status/1971900917537550407#m
‘They’ have already got the NHS data. Google and Palantir were gifted this data by the fifth columnists in the NHS and Government.
You know the Terminator films?
The evil corporation, Cyberdyne, well it’s headquarters are based on the Oracle Corporation Headquarters in Redwood City, California.
In Terminator, Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that serves as the main antagonist of the film franchise. Skynet is an AGI, an ASI and a Singularity.
Ellison too, in real life, is very interested in creating an AGI. Either purposefully or accidentally, it seems life risks imitating art.
George Galloway and his family – have been detained at Gatwick airport.
https://nitter.poast.org/KitKlarenberg/status/1971967730116169878#m
And released
Any idea why he was detained in the first place? Or was it just the sort of gratuitous bullying that we have come to expect?
He says under the Terrorism Act.
He’s making a statement on his MOATS programme tonight at 7 pm UK time.
Of course it is utter nonsense to think that mandatory ID cards of whatever description will have any impact on “illegal immigration” unless the police have the powers to stop and ask people to produce their ID at every street corner, which would come as no surprise. Current rules on “right to work” introduced by the Blair government and being tightened even further in the future are already rigorous. To comply with the law employers must ask every potential employee to prove their “right to work” in the UK including UK (and Irish) citizens, so even for them there so no “automatic right to work” as supposed. Rules for people from outside UK have changed and become more complicated with Brexit. But basically people arriving on the small boats would find it impossible anyway to secure employment unless their employer was prepared to face a massive fine (up to 60k). Employers who are prepared to take the risk will be no different with ID cards than now.
As with the recognition of a state of Palestine the idea is best described as “performative”.
You don’t need pigs on every corner. Once all your digital data, including biometrics, is loaded into Palantir’s data bases then AI and facial recognition via CCTV will be used, as it is in Israel, to identify and target citizens. These systems already exist and are in use. Be afraid.
You might want to sign the petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
Over two million, so far.
Beyond belief? Six months ago, it would have been. But by now we know that no action, however despicable, is beyond the Starmer government.
What’s good for Gaza is good for here. Folks should not misunderstand that
We are all Gaza. What is happening to Pakestinians there could happen to us. I mean, just think Tony Blair and the million deaths in Iraq. Any different from Gaza where Israel and its backers want the land and the resources but not people.
Or in a more local context the famine in Ireland that was allowed to happen, engineered even through the export of crops to accentuate the potato failure.and massively depopulate the country through over a million deaths plus immigration.
Or the Scottish clearances. What was that about
Yes we are all Gazains when needs be. And foolish we are not to recognise it.
Sir Tony Blair, Sir Keir Starmer. In whose interests do they operate.
Palantir, Black Rock, United Health Inc., Israel.
(Then there’s the approved State/ BBC representation, where they’re two selfless knights toiling in the interests of peace, justice and prosperity for all.)
Willie
That is why Irish people have a connection to Gaza.
They know ethnic cleansing when they see it by experience.
Land Clearances were the same in the UK as well in order to force the peasantry
and the artisans/crofters etc into the Industrial Mills then take over their small farms.
With the Irish it forced them to go to the US to be exploited there.
Nothing new in the pursuit of capital across the globe.
The Digital ID is being pushed through in multiple countries right now. Take Mexico as one random example. The simultaneous implementation in multiple countries across the globe is no coincidence: it’s a global plan, and absolutely nothing to do with controlling illegal immigration to the UK.
The Digital ID is the foundation stone of a totalitarian digital control system upon which the CBDC digital currency, carbon credit system and social credit system depend. As such it should be resisted at all costs, since without it all the dystopian subsystems cannot function.
To those who believe that the UK government could never manage to implement such an IT system, I’ve got news for you. It has been in development for over 10 years and is a multi-government project. Given that many world governments are now pushing to implement the first (Digital ID) phase, I think we can surmise that they’re ready to roll it out.
So when Keir Starmer opined that he was “considering” a Digital ID system, just remember that he was, of course, lying. And the venality of out political representatives in the UK parliament who support this dystopian development is telling. We can reasonably conclude that they are not on our side.
As for Blair’s involvement, it’s been reported that his son has a financial interest in the smartphone app upon which the Didital ID system will rest.
“simultaneous implementation “, yes.
WEF, UN, Covid passes, the Vax, billionairs, multinationals, AI, digital ID.
Conspiracy or a chain of evidence leading us to where we are now ?
Have you seen what we’re(UK citizens) going to have to do to visit the EU soon?
After getting off the plane, in an EU country, you’ll have to head to a terminal to have your passport scanned, then you’ll be photographed, and then answer various questions. It’s going to create huge queues in airports at tourist destinations, and I predict many will just stay at home rather than subject themselves to all that hassle. Bizarre, when passports should suffice.
If using Eurostar, I think the report said you can do that on the UK side of the Channel, before boarding.
Don’t forget, they’ll also be taking your fingerprints !
Wonder who controls and hold this data grab ?
Switzerland voting on the issue today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e4z2z8n7o
Although the proposed system there would be voluntary.
Urban Fox
September 28, 2025 at 02:13
Why do you say that the Moldovan Government are Quislings?
The term could be fairly applied to Ilan Shor of whom Wiki says “Shor has stated that he believes “the only salvation” for Moldova is “union with the Russian Federation”[19] and that “it makes no sense to talk about the country’s independence”.[20]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Shor
“The term could be fairly applied to Ilan Shor”
Quite possibly, but that doesn’t mean the current government aren’t.
Their actions and outcomes, quite simples really. Same as Ukraine and Baltic statelets.
As for Shor, they’re probably right given the “benefits” of independence and the “European path”.
I E: Tyranny, corruption, unaccountable foreign rule, grant-eater Infestation, neo-shit-lib f*ckery, witless Russophobia and depopulation.
They haven’t even had the questionable upsides.
But they’re not going to get any of these ‘benefits’ from direct rule by Moscow.
The whole idea of independence is to move away from ‘unaccountable foreign rule’ which is exactly what absorption into the Russian Federation would entail.
Totally not true, directly under Moscow they’d be equal citizens with local minority rights. Like any other Federal Republic and a lot richer too.
Under the EU comprador regime:
Elections in Moldavia are a farce, and the fact that they are manipulating them so openly and brazenly is one of the reasons why I believe EU elites plan to use the Moldovan population as nothing more than quasi-stateless aboriginals in a staging area or DMZ.
Moldova has a very large diaspora. 50/50 in Russia and the EU. They virtually ban Moldovan citizens in Russia from voting in Moldovan elections, and stuff ballots shamelessly in the EU. They ban a bunch of political parties from participating in the elections on made-up pretexts – some of those literally the day before the election -, and in the run-up they arrested a ton of people, including politicians, including a governor, and do thousands of raids at people’s homes (over 3,000 individual home searches, according to the former Moldovan Minister of Justice, in a country of 2.5 million).
They also publicly state that they WILL try to annul the elections if they don’t like the result – just like in Romania before.
Acting this openly only makes sense as an emergency measure of desperation. By a brittle illegitimate proxy regime.
That doesn’t deserve to exist.
” …under Moscow they’d be equal citizens with local minority rights. ”
The sun would shine everyday and the people full of joy and laughter….
Umm so elections are a farce, of course they are, best ban them then. Simpler than solving the problem.
“Elections in Moldavia are a farce, ”
Even the Berliner Zeitung thinks so :”The Moldovan people have the right to decide their own future without outside interference,” said EU High Representative Kaja Kallas a month ago during a press conference of the EU-Moldova Association Council. However, to uphold this right, the EU massively interfered in the recent elections in Moldova. Is this still democracy?” https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/moldau-so-beeinflusst-eu-wahlen-und-erpresst-euroskeptische-laender-li.2359926
I suppose the answer is yes, so long as the people interfering aren’t Russian. Or voting, or doing anything.
“The whole idea of independence is to move away from ‘unaccountable foreign rule’ which is exactly what absorption into the Russian Federation would entail.”
The whole idea of independence is to move away from ‘unaccountable foreign rule’ which is exactly what absorption into the EU would entail.
“Umm so elections are a farce, of course they are, best ban them then. Simpler than solving the problem.”
Hey, you’re beginning to catch on, Pears. Yes, elections in “The West” are, by and large, a farce. What better example of this is there than the last UK general election, where the Ultimate Empty Suit and his cronies, with only just over 33% of the vote, secured 66% of the seats in the legislature. They don’t solve any problems, they’re part of the problem.
pears Morgaine
I voted against Brexit but, watching these appointed and elected clowns jump through hoops to please the US is frankly nauseating.
‘ Sovereignty ‘ is meaningless if you obey orders and dictats from any other country.
Europe is really on the skids and it won’t help if your energy needs or tariffs from a Bezzie Mate are forced upon you and you accept them.
The European Union used to be a very important Trading Bloc.
It has now been turned into a US Performing Monkey.
It’s cause was that Technocrats thought they could become politicians.
It’s much easier to operate at Goldman Sachs than it is to do politics in
the real ever changing world.
The bad news for the Ukranians is that Europe can now do what it wants.
Like Starmer could have done with his massive majority.
The problem for the EU and Starmer is – they don’t know what to without the US covering their backsides or what the US allows them to do.
They are doomed I’m afraid but, they deserve their doom.
A lesson in what happens when you dabble in something you know little about.
Politics.
Otherwise known as Concentrated Economics.
An Al Jazeera report on today’s election in Moldova:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/28/moldova-holds-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-claims-of-russian-interference
A BBC report on a Russian-funded fake news network trying to manipulate the election:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5kl0n5d2o
The result could determine whether Moldova is oriented West or East. I see a parallel with Ukraine 15 years ago.
Moldova’s election according to the ‘pro-Russia?’ real BBC’s own reporter:
• Authorities have set up roadblocks and checkpoints in areas that typically vote for pro-Russia parties
• Are checking driver ID for every vehicle, very slowly, resulting in frustration and v.long tailbacks
• Have moved polling stations out of these areas so voters hare to travel through said checkpoints
If that’s not blatant election manipulation, I don’t know what is.
I don’t particularly care who wins either way. But it should be conducted fairly.
If this kind of direct manipulation by hindering and suppressing the turnout of certain voters, is the EU’s cure, then it’s worse than the ‘alleged’ Russian interference disease.
Every contest in Eastern Europe is being turned into a West vs Russia election. And it doesn’t matter if a nationalist party isn’t really pro-Russia per se, as being seen as not fanatically pro-EU, is enough to get a party classed as pro-Russia.
Fucking depressing state of affairs. If war comes, it’ll come from these Eastern European countries, that are internally tearing themselves to pieces over nothing.
Imagine were a govt classed as pro-Russia in power, in Moldova, and pulling stunts like the check points and frustrating waits in pro-EU party areas. The EU (von der Leyen) and UK would be up in arms; claiming flagrant voter suppression tactics had been deployed.
This is why I don’t think the West is much better these days, so hypocritical. They are perfectly relaxed about shoddy behaviour if it is seen as being to the benefit of their side in some way. Today’s treatment of Transnistria, and the way far too few postal ballots were sent to Moldovans in Russia, for the presidential election, is election manipulation in its purest form. They talk about Russia, but what sort of example is that?
Hre’s the latest BBC report:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo
M.J.
In normal times, a govt like that of Moldova, one that has a crisis in its healthcare system, due to a massive influx of Ukrainian refugees, and inflation spiking at 40%. A collapsed economy due to no trade with historic big trading partners’ Moscow & Kyiv, wouldn’t be able to defy political gravity and would be voted out. Normal political scenario, yes?
The only hope these incumbent pro-EU parties have, is by playing up the Russian scare in order to make the election about anything other than their country’s woeful economic performance and social domestic issues.
Don’t you understand the logic here, in talking up the Russian threat?
Goose: In difficult times many voters want “change” at any cost, and they can behave foolishly and impatiently. This caused many people in the USA to vote Trump. They may be made to realise their mistake over the next year, as they suffer because of his lunatic policies, and realise that he doesn’t ‘have their backs’ as they had thought.
In Moldova there are old people who speak of the good old Soviet days. I don’t blame them, as they knew nothing else (nor were they allowed to travel outside the Soviet bloc to find out). But the promise of better days following closer links with the EU lies ahead, and I hope that most Moldovans vote accordingly. It’s their decision, and in a few hours we should know.
“In Moldova there are old people who speak of the good old Soviet days.”
Of course it couldn’t possibly be that the old Soviet days really were good, can it? After all this is Russia we are talking about. Did you ever go to the USSR to find out what it was like there and then go again to find out what it was like after the collapse of the USSR, or are you relying entirely on sources that you know can’t be relied on always to tell you the truth? Don’t be so damn patronising.
I think it’s almost impossible for the pro-EU side to lose, such is the money and campaigning that’s been thrown at this, from the EU.
They talk about Russian interference, but the streets were full of Moldovan flags alongside that of the EU’s – huge parades took place with the same. Moldova isn’t even an EU member state. It’s not exactly an organic, spontaneous display when EU funded groups are behind it, is it.
The quote, “accuse the other side of that which you are guilty” is often falsely attributed to Joseph Goebbels.
What he actually said is : The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing. – Which he said at the Nuremberg rally in 1934
That’s pretty much where we are at today, with the EU’s unsubstantiated accusations of massive Russian interference.
Bayard: It’s not obvious that you know anyone who travelled to the Soviet bloc yourself. (I have met such people). Stop making ignorant personal comments.
M.J.
Take these examples:
‘Moldova says Russian agents spent 200 million euro to rig the presidential votes last year’
– That’s an enormous amount of money to spend on elections where the game is already rigged:
It’s not disputed by anyone, the fact that Moldova allocated just 10,000 ballots for around 350,000 Moldovans living in Russia.The population of Transnistria is 367,000, but they were only allowed to vote in Moldova itself, hence the checkpoints, long frustrating waits and tailbacks making many not even bother.
“Bayard: It’s not obvious that you know anyone who travelled to the Soviet bloc yourself.”
I’m not the one presenting hearsay as fact, so I don’t need to justify myself. As it happens, my brother lived in the USSR for a year back in the early 80s and I had a Kazakh lodger for many years who was born and grew up in Kazakhstan.
“Stop making ignorant personal comments.”
What ignorance? I could see you were being patronising and I called you out for it.
“A BBC report on a Russian-funded fake news network trying to manipulate the election:”
So that’s a British-funded fake news network report on a Russian-funded fake news network trying to manipulate the election. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
The phrase “accuse the other side of that which you are guilty” springs to mind.
They just can’t help it. The Beeb is, and has always been, a propaganda organ of the British state.
Moldovan politicians and supporters in the EU are crowing today over their victory.
But did the ferocious beast they supposedly defeated even exist? I doubt it.
Either, Russia is completely crap at interfering in elections, or the interference didn’t exist and was just used by Moldovan authorities as a smokescreen to cover conducting their own manipulation? Some of the stymieing techniques used against parties perceived as pro-Russia, wouldn’t be out of place in Central America, or Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
It has to be Russian interference. Who could not love this cuddly, caring organisation,with its fragrant leader and its selfless officials who toil ceaselessly for the good of the people? Who would not want to be part of the this big, happy family? Apart from the ungrateful British, that is, but they hate the Russians, so that’s OK.
Calm down folks. No need to worry about ID cards.
Good old Nigel and his Reform cohorts, freedom loving civil libertarians that they are, will explain to the general public, just as Craig is doing here, exactly why and how they are a terrifying form of total social control. They will even care to explain to their racist supporters that Starmer’s arguments about stopping immigration are completely bogus, and that the cards will not help with that at all.
When a solid and honest argument against the cards has been made by the right-wing oppisition and freedom loving right-wing press, and trumpeted throughout the liberal television news, the entire general public will be aghast at Starmer’s sheer hubris and medacity and the ID card plan will be well and truly scuppered.
Amazing really, how Starmer thought that he could get away with it.
As a kid I always liked those cowboy films where, just at the last moment, the US Cavalry would appear on the horizon and rout the baddies. Just like in real life. Not.
Sadly for us, Nigel Farage is a bought-and-paid-for stooge of the City of London. It’s quite a sight to behold to see a party with just five seats in Parliament get such a disproportionate representation on the airwaves and in the press. Apparently, Farage treats Reform as his own mini fiefdom and has little interest in formulating policies, like a normal party would do. His is the role of the disrupter.
I must show some grudging respect to the way that “they” have managed to stitch up the political system in the UK so that the illusion of democracy and choice almost remains but real democratic representation of the people, for the people, is but a (rapidly disappearing) illusion. With hindsight, we can see that Tony Blair was one of “theirs”, a Trojan horse politician who provided the illusion of change but, in reality, was the opposite. Ditto, Obama in the US. I believe Farage also fits into that category; he’s an illusion.
Sadly, I therefore don’t expect Nigel Farage will be leading the charge of the UK Cavalry to rescue the benighted residents of our nation. Real change will not come from the options offered to us by the system itself.
Farage and his party are riding high because he and they are supportive of Israel. If he wasn’t, he’d be banished to the naughty corner, alongside Jeremy and Zarah. Arlene foster, Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee, and Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, are frequently invited for political talk shows and newspaper reviews, because they’re supportive of Israel. Being supportive of Israel, is the key to unlocking invites and positive media coverage in the UK.
There was a picture of the BBC’s online Middle East editor, Raffi Berg, holding up his book. Proudly displayed behind him on the wall of his home, he had a framed letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
I’d tend to cast my net wider than that and say that Farage and Reform are being promoted by the legacy media because this fits in with “The Agenda”, of which UK government support for Israel is just one component. Reform provides the illusion of an alternative to the uniparty system in the UK while still supporting the government narrative where it matters. To me, this demonstrates the synthetic nature of Reform as an alternative in UK politics. It will toe the line on Israel because it is not a real party with a real alternative to the status quo. Reform’s role is to act as a safety valve for pent-up anger and frustration with the current system, and to promote the hope that we can vote our way out of the current mess.
As for The Agenda, where its boundaries lie I can only speculate but there’s much evidence that the City of London is a major driver in implementing its goals and there’s also plenty of evidence that Nige is their man. The war in Ukraine is very likely to be another part of The Agenda, as was the Covid scamdemic, which laid the groundwork for the forthcoming digital dystopia they have planned for us.
Please consider that in deep politics timescales can be longer and scope can be wider than the average person can fathom.
Spot-on: as is your previous comment, above.
Reform are clearly a manifestation of ‘ Controlled Opposition ‘ and not only will they not provide any solution to the UK’s accumulating crises, they will almost certainly make things worse: if, given the sheer awfulness of Starmer and preceeding several Govs, further deterioration short of total collapse is possibe. I reckon it is possible.
Currently the UK is standing on the edge of the abyss; a Reform or some Tory+Reform mutant hybrid may just be the scenario to push us over that edge
In 1997 the public (as far as they count under FPTP) voted against the Tories (Officials). In 2010 they voted against Liarbour and in 2017 voted against the Tories (Officials) despite Corbyn sabotaging Liarbour’s chances. They voted against Liarbour in 2019 for being a shower of shite and voted against the Tories last year for the same reason. Reform is being bruited by the corp-0-rat media and the state broadcaster as the home of the anti-Liarbour protest vote. It’s a transparent manoeuvre that won’t fool many people, the fraudulent FPTP system will do that (as usual).
They are the Tory backup plan, or Plan B, yep.
They are mostly comprised of disgruntled Tories anyway. Right-wing govts seem to be our lot in life. “Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s black.” was attributed to Henry Ford, our version is. “You can vote for any party you wish, as long as it’s right wing.”
As with Boris Johnson, the BBC can either make or break you. They carried Johnson to victory in 2019’s GE concentrating their attacks solely on Corbyn’s alleged unfitness to be PM, only to destroy Johnson once in office over the relatively trivial petty nonsense that was ‘Partygate’.
“In 1997 the public (as far as they count under FPTP) voted against the Tories (Officials). In 2010 they voted against Liarbour and in 2017 voted against the Tories (Officials) despite Corbyn sabotaging Liarbour’s chances. They voted against Liarbour in 2019 for being a shower of shite and voted against the Tories last year for the same reason. ”
Which is why politics is such a pile of shite, because if you are voting against something, you don’t really care what you are voting for, so long as it is not what you are voting against. Until the British stop voting against things and start thinking about what they are voting for, politics in the UK will continue to plumb new depths.
Well said, Bayleaf. The WEF agenda covers all those things you mention, and profit for the billionaires underpins it. Trump intends to remove all limitations on spending for elections. Farage made a lot of noise about Khan refusing to allow Black Rock to purchase the London Underground.
The Unity flags worked well for the Musk and Tommy whip agenda for civil war in the UK. Musk is eagerly looking forward to that. The same orchestrated celebration of EU and Moldova flags goes by the same playbook. On our celebration day Ukraine announced it was going to take out all Russia’s oil and gas installations. This is of course what this ‘war’ is all about. To date they have destroyed 85 refineries and distribution centres. Van der Leyen had first of all been round Eastern Europe telling them they weren’t allowed to buy Russian gas. Now she says they can but Russia says they can’t spare anything.
Also on that Saturday Poland blocked its railway lines into Belarus. Now it has unblocked them and is telling all its citizens to return from Belarus to Poland. Also FlightRadar was full of anxious people concerned that objects flying faster than planes were streaking across the sky from Ukraine to the far east of Russia. Some commenters were asking if they were UFOs much to the amusement of others who decried the concerns as nonsense.
Moldova is tucked in beside Ukraine, close to Russia, and has a buffer zone alongside Ukraine. Russia is declaring that Europe and NATO are actively engaged in war against Russia. Putin has been careful to ensure that everything they do is compliant with international law. Ukrainians are mourning their dead combatants.
Ukraine was following troop movements across Russia via the phone signals which indicated where troop build ups were forming. Surveillance is comprehensive. Strike capability is well defined.
Drone sightings across Europe, Scandinavia, the UK and the US are intensifying. There is a new defensive weapon, like iron dome, which can net large numbers of drones simultaneously.
Money for the arms producers to get money from the oil and gas, from Russia, Gaza, Iran, courtesy of Ukraine and Israel. A lot of billionaires have a lot of spare cash. Democracies have been rendered inoperable by corporate media and the interests of a few very wealthy individuals.
“Sadly, I therefore don’t expect Nigel Farage will be leading the charge of the UK Cavalry to rescue the benighted residents of our nation. ”
That was always very unlikely. A much more likely stumbling block will be actually getting several million recalcitrant Brits to comply with the relevant legislation.
If you’re referring to the Digital ID, they’ll aim to get 70% signed up via bribery, coercion and a barrage of lies, The media will promote it to the rafters and, just to show some balance, provide some weak objections to its adoption. Expect a for:against ratio on the Beeb to be 90% positive and 10% mildly negative. For the vast majority of the public in the UK, the Digital ID has appeared out of nowhere and the public has no strong opinion on the matter. The media will try to fill that void in the same way that they always do.
Once the government reaches 70% penetration, I suggest it’ll be game over. The remaining 30% will become a mopping up operation.
Bayleaf
Everyone should opt for the physical card version.
It’ll make it more expensive for them to foist on everyone, and costs could be a big factor in whether it goes ahead. Besides, mobile phones aren’t safe; did you read about how Israel commandeered all Gazans’ mobile devices and made them spontaneously switch to playing Netanyahu’s speech from the UN?
Every phone in Gaza will have NSO Group Pegasus-type sophisticated, undetectable short of network analysis, spyware on it. Under the Investigatory Powers Act’s overly broad bulk hacking rules, there is nothing stopping UK authorities doing something similar here – no ‘targeted’ or proportionate tests. Only the conscience and ethics of those involved in carrying out such surveillance powers abuse.
@Goose.
With respect, it makes little or no difference whether people opt for the phone or the card. Both will be “near field” devices where you need to be within a few centimetres of the reader for it to work.
The critical point is that people should not consent *at all* to the Digital ID system, not whether they have it on a phone or a card. For a government that can print its own money, cost will not be a deciding factor and, anyway, cards are as cheap as chips. Opting for the card is not going to stress the government’s finances one bit.
The medium by which the planned oppression will be enforced is unimportant. What is vitally important is to keep focused on completely rejecting the Digital ID system.
Bayleaf
The govt pushed an alert to all mobile phones on 7 September 2025.
The alert was sent to all smartphones on the UK’s 4G and 5G networks, even if they were not connected to mobile data or wi-fi. Personally, I don’t like the commandeering of devices like that. The govt have given themselves way too much power, that they can exercise, in secret, with the undemocratic, decree-like ‘technical notices’ and bulk hacking. The only reason we found out about the attempted overreach with Apple, is because Apple are one of the largest, if not the largest, richest companies in the world, and thus didn’t fear the UK govt. How many others would just meekly go along?
This Labour govt are instinctively authoritarian, They have not rolled back the Tories restrictions on protest; they’ve not rolled back the surveillance state successive Tory govts implement . No, the ratchet only goes one way – ever more authoritarian. Every org that campaigns on civil liberties despises this govt.
Good read here:
Insiders reveal how Larry Ellison’s money turned Blair’s institute into a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/blair-and-the-billionaire/
@Goose
It’s a given that smartphones are inherently insecure devices., but the issue at hand is that we should be strongly resisting Digital ID, and not whether it’s best to get it on a smartphone or on a card. For the sake of our future freedom, it’s best not to get it at all.
Surveillance culture just grows and grows, year upon year, as technological capability grows: processing capability and storage capacity. Legislation grafted on legislation, until it becomes seen as normal. It shouldn’t be seen as normal for the state or corporations to know everything about us, and we nothing about them. Our ancestors didn’t have to put up with it and they ensured their correspondence was private.
I’d wager the scale of it is bonkers, in our supposedly ‘free’ societies. It’d require a very strong leader to unpick it all now.
@Bayleaf
Yeah. I’m not disagreeing.
It’s becoming clearer what is going on here:
• Starmer announces huge AI infrastructure investment across the UK
• Digital ID proposed
From https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/blair-and-the-billionaire/ :
There is a reason why men whose fortunes are built on AI investments would target the UK, and that is the National Health Service (NHS) and its unique population-level health data. Tech experts talk about Britain’s health records in almost hushed tones. While Europe and the US have some comparable health data sets – such as US veterans’ medical records – none have the depth and breadth of NHS records dating back to 1948. Its potential commercial value, from drugs to genome sequencing has been estimated at up to £10bn per annum.
Ellison told Blair of his interest in NHS data when he was interviewed by him at the Dubai World Governments Summit in February 2025: “The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data,” Ellison enthused, but it was “fragmented”.
Digital ID could be the first move to create that single unified database, sorting out that fragmentation problem Ellison spoke of.
Reported that the Labour party made a loss of £3.8 million last year, but donations from wealthy individuals are up. Figures.
Quite how any working-class person can take Farridge seriously when he’s financed by Musk et al. is beyond me but then I’m a superannuated, 1970s, working-class egalitarian so what do I know?
Squeeth
Farage fell out of favour with Elon Musk, didn’t he?
As I understand it, they fundamentally disagreed over Tommy Robinson. Farage is no fool, and he knew embracing Robinson would be toxic for Reform. I don’t think Musk gets the fact, that for a mainstream party in the UK to embrace Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) it would be akin to the Republicans embracing someone as controversial as David Duke. Some people are seen as just too controversial for mainstream parties. Does Musk even know, who Yaxley-Lennon took the Tommy Robinson alias from?
The Farage, Musk, Trump menage a trois is just political games, manoeuvring for the next GE to ensure all the fifth columnists are in place. TR is a Charlie Kirk figure, he has lots of support, when the time comes he’ll be discarded and his supporters will be hijacked onto the appropriate party. A false flag Muslim assassination would be my guess.
The timing of these announcements is designed to distract popular attention away from UK government complicity in the two major West disasters : Gaza/West Bank / East Jerusalem and Ukraine
The Electronic Intifada has a moving interview with Ahmed Abu Artema, a journalist from Gaza whose son was killed in Gaza but who was lucky enough to eventually escape this year – though Israelis wouldn’t allow him to take any of his son’s personal effects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV0DRAu-8_Y
Ahmed Abu Artema wrote to Ali Abunimah in July this year, when the starvation in Gaza, which Israel imposed, was escalating severely.
“I started to do something I never did before. I started to count my steps and my movement to keep the little energy which I got from the little food and to use that energy in other activities like writing .. This was the reality. “
Good news from Moldova.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/29/europe/moldova-election-eu-russia-intl-hnk
Despite Russia’s best (worst) efforts, Moldova’s ruling pro-EU party wins election marred by claims of Russian meddling.
“But with more than 99% of votes counted early Monday, Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) had secured more than 50% of the vote, far ahead of the pro-Russian opposition Patriotic Bloc with under 25%. If confirmed, PAS will retain its majority in Moldova’s 101-seat legislature.”
Only Moscow’s friends will be downcast.
Two political parties that favored closer relations with Russia were banned in Moldova.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/moldova-bars-pro-russian-party-135731965.html
Johnny Conspiranoid
September 29, 2025 at 09:04
Pro Nazi parties (Mosley’s party in particular) were banned in England during WW2.
I am delighted that little Moldova is taking the steps necessary for its survival.
Little Moldova is not at war with anyone at present. It should be able to hold free and fair elections without any interference from anyone outside of Moldova. This does not appear to be the present case,
The comparison is as weak as the trolling.
Moldova population 1991 4.7 million.
Moldova population 2025: 2.4 million.
I think their survival depends, on raising Brezhnev from the dead TBH.
Russophobic Eastern Eurocuck cargo-cultistism & propaganda is funni glorious “independence” and the “European path”. Has been worse for their demographics, than Hitler or Stalin.
After the forcible incorporation into the Soviet Union Moldova was subjected to the same enforced Russification as the Baltic States, Russian was made the official language and many Russians were settled in the country. According to Russian historians about 90,000 Moldavians were arrested and disappeared by Soviet authorities.
After independence many ethnic Russians left as did the Russian troops stationed in the country.
“Despite Russia’s best (worst) efforts, Moldova’s ruling pro-EU party wins election marred by claims of Russian meddling.”
Ok, give me one, just one, piece of evidence of “Russian interference” to counter all the evidence of government interference around on the ‘net and please don’t quote the BBC, that would be just lame.
Yup, nothing. I thought so.
JK redux
I have heard that the vast majority of the Moldovan Diaspora who live in Russia ( 500k) were not allowed
to vote in the Moldovan Election.
Only 4k were allowed to vote
I hear also that there were only 2 election places to vote in Russia but, hundreds were available
for the other people of the Disapora in Europe.
Any ideas on why that occurred?
Craig – perhaps you could confirm a rumour that has reached me that Starmer is planning to give the contract to implement digital ID to a company that is run by Euan Blair, son of the former Labour PM. Have you heard about this, and is it true?
The pro-EU party looks to have a majority in Moldova’s parliament:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rdlj8e
Good for Moldova. Its citizens will end up better off.
RIP. God help them !
I do not understand the crowing. There was only one outcome. A foregone conclusion. Corrupt politics at its best.
“Good for Moldova. Its citizens will end up better off.”
How?
Well they won’t have EU troops forced on them and if they change their minds down the line they’ll be able to leave without any bloodshed.
“Well they won’t have EU troops forced on them”
How about the NATO troops currently massing just across the border? In any case, what makes you think that if the opposition had won the election, they would have Russian troops, or indeed any troops forced on them, apart from the usual NATO fantasies?
Fifteen hundred Russian troops in Transinistra. Join the Russian Federation and military occupation is part of the deal.
What NATO troops? Moldova is neutral and neutrality is written into its constitution. NATO nothing to do with the EU anyway.
“Fifteen hundred Russian troops in Transinistra. Join the Russian Federation and military occupation is part of the deal.”
Ten thousand US troops in the UK, fifty thousand in Germany. Join NATO and military occupation is part of the deal. In any case 1500 troops is hardly an “occupation”,nor did Transnistria join the Russian Federation, it just didn’t leave along when the rest of Moldova left. I am sure as a supporter of Kosovo, you support the right of self-determination and thus the right of the inhabitants of Transnistria to form their own state and to remain within the RF, or does the right to self-determination only apply to people who wish to place themselves under the control of the West? And when Transnistria,as part of the RF was attacked by the Moldovans,did they not have a right to request help from Russia, or does that only apply to countries that are fighting Russia, like Ukraine?
“What NATO troops?”
At the last count there were 4700 NATO troops just across the border in Romania.
“Moldova is neutral and neutrality is written into its constitution.”
That was true of Ukraine, but it didn’t stop them trying to join NATO. It was also true of Finland.
“NATO nothing to do with the EU anyway.”
I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the majority of EU countries are in NATO and vice versa.
Whataboutery and those troops are there by invitation.
Ukraine never stated it was neutral and it’s not in their constitution.
” I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the majority of EU countries are in NATO and vice versa. ”
Also mere coincidence that they’re all in geographical Europe.
“Whataboutery and those troops are there by invitation.”
As are the Russian troops in Transnistria. Funny way, though that the Germans had of inviting in the US troops in 1945, since when they have never left. It’s not “whataboutery” . You posited the proposition that troops in a country meant occupation and I gave some other examples of countries with foreign troops stationed there to show that this either wasn’t the case, or it meant that those countries, too were under occupation. Perhaps I should have spelled that out, sigh.
“Also mere coincidence that they’re all in geographical Europe.”
The USA is in Europe?
Russia has twice promised to withdraw its forces from Transinistra, in 1994 and 2002. On both occasions it’s failed to do so.
USA not a member of the EU; neither is Canada or Iceland.
“USA not a member of the EU; neither is Canada or Iceland.”
Do try reading comments before answering or do you not know what “vice versa” means?
“Russia has twice promised to withdraw its forces from Transinistra, in 1994 and 2002. On both occasions it’s failed to do so.”
Do you know that the Transnistrians didn’t request that they stay? Given the example of the Donbass in 2014, that would have been a wise decision.
“The man who killed a million Iraqis on the basis of lies about WMD…”
Three million plus actually dead, and huge numbers maimed, bereaved, left homeless or even stateless, and the national infrastructure laid in ruins. And the very framework of society deliberately unhinged and destroyed.
For details see “Genocide in Iraq: The Case Against the UN Security Council and Member States” and “Genocide in Iraq Volume II: The Obliteration of a Modern State” by Dr. Abdul-Haq al-Ani and Tarik al-Ani.
Three million plus is the standard US government baseline for atrocity against nations to which it takes a dislike. There were North Korea, where a USAF general boasted that the bombers had left not one brick on another in the whole country, and Vietnam (and neighbouring countries) which was poisoned with Agent Orange and other delightful chemicals such as napalm.
None of those immensely deadly acts of vicious aggression was necessary or even desirable from the point of view of the USA. The much-touted “domino effect” never materialised even after the hard-fought deadlock in Korea and the humiliating defeat in Vietnam. And Iraq did not have WMD, far less any that could reach Britain or Europe.
Between those three wars alone, the USA deliberately and with malice aforethought killed probably over 10 million people. And that is passing over the scores of other countries it has attacked and harmed.
In a way this is good news. It will bury the labour party as badly as the conservatives have been buried.
I genuinely think the current main political parties are now dead. The next general election will be fought by Reform and “Your Party”
That in turn will determine the direction of this country for probably the next 15-20 years.
That is assuming that we don’t get nuked before then.
Meanwhile, bad news for those that support the campaign by the unelected bureaucrats of the EU to bring the whole of geographical Europe under their control, even The Telegraph has given up on Ukraine.
Read the Comments?
He’s proposing a deal Putin has already rejected.
“He’s proposing a deal Putin has already rejected.”
Which part of that deal has Putin rejected? I’m not paying to read the comments.
All of it. Any feelers for a negotiated settlement have been met with increased bombing of civilians.
You don’t have to pay to read the comments.
“All of it. Any feelers for a negotiated settlement have been met with increased bombing of civilians.”
Bollocks! If you actually did some research rather than regurgitating what you hear on the BBC, you would know that the deal outlined in this article has not been proposed, ever, particularly the neutral status of Ukraine. All this “bombing of civilians” crap is getting tiresome and just makes you look an idiot. I know you are capable of making rational points when the subject doesn’t involve Russia, so why you persist in these idiotic assertions is beyond me.
Because they’re true.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/09/europe/russian-bomb-attack-ukrainian-civilians-yarova-intl
You need to look beyond Russian backed media.
Pears, I can do arithmetic. If Russia launches hundreds of missiles and drones and kills four civilians (all as reported in our media, not Russia’s), it should be obvious to anyone that civilians weren’t the target. What’s always missing is any mention of what the targets actually were.
“Because they’re true.”
No they are not. You need to look beyond the Western MSM. Do you believe that CNN have never told a single untruth in their entire existence as an organisation? If not, what is your basis for trusting a single thing they say, knowing that they are capable of lying to you,?
Steve, with Pears, all Russian bombing is aimed at civilians, even if none are killed and much military stuff is destroyed. The military stuff is just collateral damage. Ditto Ukrainian bombing, except it’s the other way round.
Ukraine does get advance warning so people can get to shelters. They’re still managing to shoot down many of the drones and missiles.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/europe/russia-daytime-drone-attacks-ukraine-intl-cmd
https://alerts.in.ua/en
“Ukraine does get advance warning so people can get to shelters. ”
Each one of those alerts puts millions of lives on hold – part of Russia’s strategy of terrorizing and exhausting Ukraine’s civilian population.
Let’s all weep! Better to have your life on hold than have it terminated or have its quality dramatically reduced by being disabled, which is what the inhabitants of Russia and the Donbass have had to put up with on a regular basis for the last eleven years and still have to today.
Are you still hawking the ‘Ukraine committed genocide in Donbas’ myth?
https://www.promoteukraine.org/un-releases-data-on-donbas-war-casualties/
Note 4,200 Ukrainian personnel killed.
I wasn’t trying to hawk any genocide myth. Ukraine bombing Russian civilians isn’t any form of genocide. Nobody was killed because they were a Slav. Perhaps you should explain to the friends and relatives of the 4000 dead and to the 8000 wounded that they are lucky as they or their loved ones weren’t “traumatised” by having to go into an air-raid shelter but were merely killed or mutilated.