Say NO to Digital ID

🛑 “BritCard” or BritControl? Why and how to fight for our liberty

Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement of mandatory digital ID cards - dubbed “BritCards” - is being sold as a solution to illegal immigration. But, this is actually nothing more than a Trojan horse for mass surveillance, digital dependency, and state control over everyday life. Here’s why it must be opposed… and how we fight back.

🔍 What’s Being Proposed?

• Every adult in the UK will need a digital ID to work, rent property, or access key services.

• IDs will be stored on a government app, with physical alternatives for those without smartphones (so no, you can't just switch to Nokia)

• The system will be checked against a central database to verify your right to live and work in Britain.

• Starmer claims it will “clamp down” on illegal immigration and make life easier for law-abiding citizens.

But hold on? Don't we have passports, national insurance numbers and a whole bunch of other ways of verifying your right to live and work here? Something is a little fishy…

🚨 Why It Won’t Stop Illegal Immigration

• Illegal workers operate in the cash economy - they don’t apply for jobs through formal channels. A digital ID won’t touch this.

• Smugglers and traffickers aren’t deterred by paperwork.

• The boats will keep coming. The real pull factors - weak border enforcement, generous welfare, and activist legal protections - remain completely untouched.

• France isn’t enforcing its side of the deal. The UK’s one-in-one-out agreement has become a national embarrassment, as predicted.

⁉️ What’s Really Going On?

This isn’t about immigration. It’s about control.

• Digital IDs create a population-wide database of personal information - perfect for abuse, “mission creep”, and politicisation.

• Mandatory verification for basic tasks (jobs, housing, deliveries) means the government can track your movements, choices, and associations.

• The app is just the beginning. Future integration with health records, voting, and financial data is already being floated by think tanks.

• Starmer’s allies want Estonia-style biometric tracking - a model praised by the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together (❗️)

✅️ What SHOULD be happening:

• The state must never require citizens to carry identification to exist in public life.

• Freedom of association, movement, and employment must not be contingent on digital compliance.

• Government databases must be opt-in, decentralised, and strictly limited in scope.

• The burden of proof lies with the state… not the citizen.

💥 Real Threat to National Security:

• Unfriendly nations could deploy a team of hackers to gain unlawful access to the data, which could then be used to blackmail Britons, or worse.

• Previous governments have used applications such as Excel to hold sensitive data (The Track and Trace application), and have experienced data leaks (Afghanistan 2025) which leads to questions regarding the safety of this information.

• There have been many cases recently of Russia using hackers to infiltrate NATO files (Russia's Federal Security Service linked to the spread of the “snake” malware in 2023 which targeted government ministers from NATO countries).

• Essentially, every British adult’s data is up for grabs - is what enemy states see.

🥊 How to Fight Back

1. Sign the petition: Nearly 2 million have already demanded the government scrap the scheme (it's growing!!)

2. Refuse to comply: Civil disobedience is a legitimate response to illegitimate control.

3. Support privacy advocacy groups: Big Brother Watch and others are leading the charge.

4. Expose the hypocrisy: If Starmer wants to stop illegal immigration, why is he ignoring border enforcement and legal loopholes?!

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You can make a difference. Join the movement against digital ID. You can start of… by commenting your thoughts below and sharing this post.

P.S. Owing to this policy, our contributor LB has actually left the UK permanently and is relocating to a warmer country 😭🤣

We wish him good luck 🥳 (he’s still writing here dw)