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> There will be no requirement for individuals to carry their ID or be asked to produce it - but digital ID will be mandatory as a means of proving your Right t
by pjc50 1y ago
> There will be no requirement for individuals to carry their ID or be asked to produce it - but digital ID will be mandatory as a means of proving your Right to Work.
So it's mandatory for everyone except old people and the unemployed. It will almost certainly also be mandatory for renting, which has the same check. Then it will gradually seep into everything else: benefits and pensions, to cover the categories not initially covered. Then police spot checks and ICE sweeps.
- GJim 1y ago> and ICE sweeps Sorry old boy, but what have the *UK* Institute of Civil Engineers got to do with this?
- pjc50 1y agoUsing the name of the US body to associate it with the immigration sweeps carried out in an abusive manner; the corresponding UK immigration raids are currently the responsibility of the Home Office.
- mc32 1y agoPresumably they have their own British acronym and don’t need to borrow one from the US.
- mc32 1y agoThe best way to win an argument is to mix and unrelated match facts… I mean, unless someone notices…
- ratelimitsteve 1y agookay but the best way to win a tennis match is to score an unrelated match point
- KaiserPro 1y agoThis isn't the USA, ICE doesn't exist here. We have the border force, and they aren't allowed to cover their faces, yet. But to your point, its required to have some sort of ID for renting, job or voting _already_ the difference here is there is a digital version of it. The other thing is that driving licenses are also ID, that carry a £10k fine for not keeping your address up to date.
- pjc50 1y ago> its required to have some sort of ID for renting, job or voting _already_ the difference here is there is a digital version of it It's strange how last time I campaigned against ID cards 25 years ago, none of those requirements were in place. Voter ID in particular is a very recent idea imported from the US (and of course doesn't apply to postal votes, where there are actually real concerns about security and diversion).
- masfuerte 1y agoIt will eventually be required for everybody except the wealthy. Just like nearly everybody's medical privacy has been given away in the UK. Like nearly everybody's rights are unenforceable because they can't pay the enormous costs of a court action. British freedom is great if you can afford it.
- jaggs 1y agoPlease stop Americanizing the UK. ICE does not exist in the UK.
- tencentshill 1y agoStasi, Gestapo, ICE. You know what they meant. The UK just doesn't have the equivalent aggressive immigrant-removal operation in place yet.
- jaggs 1y agoAnd may never have. Believe it or not the UK and the USA are two different countries, thank goodness. So making an assumption that the two will adopt exactly the same policies is a little ambitious to say the least. For example please note that the UK just agreed to recognize Palestine.