The entire UK Cabinet is in disarray and uproar over Starmer not stepping down while Labour’s Wes Streeting has announced his resignation as health minister, calling for a leadership contest to oust socialist British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has shown no sign he is ready to go.
Disastrous results for the governing Labour Party in last week’s local elections when it lost more than 1000 seats have plunged Britain into its latest crisis, just under two years after Starmer won a large majority on a vow to bring stability and end a decade of political chaos.
All this while King Charles III announced the rollout of the nation’s digital ID system, claiming that it will allow more citizens to access government services online. There has been massive opposition.
Many are concerned that it will usher in programmable digital currency. The system would effectively do away with internet anonymity and comes as the UK government has also announced new crackdowns on antisemitic speech, much of which is communicated online.
Reform leader and potentially the next UK Prime Minister Nigel Farage warned last year that digital ID is not what it’s made out to be and would turn the country into a massive surveillance state with no benefit to the people.
Farage slammed it as a tool to control citizens by tracking what they do, how they spend and where they go.
The Australian Labor Party legislated digital ID in November 2024 but claim it is not compulsory – yet.
While the government professes the system will enhance access to social services, many fear the digital ID scheme could become a precursor to a system resembling China’s social credit score model, which tracks citizens via facial recognition and denies or restricts services based on AI assessments.
Digital ID systems will give unelected bureaucrats unprecedented control over everyday life, with a centralized digital currency likely following close behind.
