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ID Cards Coming to the UK – The Thin End of the Wedge

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  1. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    Is the tech giant who gave Blair £257m in line for ID card ...

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    Daily Mail
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-15140649

    Sep 28th, 2025 — Is the tech giant who gave Blair £257m in line for huge ID card contract? Government embroiled in cronyism row after revelation former PM

    BBC issues apology after facing backlash for airing false ...

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    2 days ago — ... Blair's son Euan, had secured the contract to operate the digital ID card system. The presenter posed a question to panellists about who ...


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    Sep 24th, 2025 — Far from reflecting the “papers, please” caricature of an ID card, digital ID is the foundation of a new system that brings fairness, control

    No wonder Tony Blair wants Digital IDs… when his son is ...

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    7 days ago — It correctly identifies Euan Blair's role and the family's potential interest in digital IDs, but exaggerates the financial details
     
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  2. FellTop

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    As a general point of principle ID cards are ok with me. I already have umpteen of them.

    But this seems an entirely politically timed scheme, and another timing misjudgement with Labour. This scheme will change nothing. It will cost a fortune. The idea of a digital id scheme taking 3 years to roll out is madness. I have no idea how this is an answer. If it is an answer I have no idea what the question is.

    Just another poltical white elephant to waste more money, or feed the poltical elite.
     
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    FellTop, Oct 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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  3. Sidthemackem

    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United Staff Member

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    You're like my dad. Paid off his mortgage, never had a loan, paid off his credit card each month. Then he went to buy a new three piece suite. The shop was doing interest-free credit, so he thinks he'll buy it with their money and promptly fails the credit check.
     
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  4. BishopSAFC

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    So hopefully like what I do he said ****um someone else can have my money.
     
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    BishopSAFC, Oct 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United Staff Member

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    Nah. He paid cash <laugh>
     
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    Sidthemackem, Oct 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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    DH4 Well-Known Member

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    No, I have never had any credit at all. I have never borrowed money from anyone at all.
     
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    ‘Secure our borders’
    ‘Secure our borders’
    ‘I’m going to do something to secure our borders’
    ‘Don’t do that’
     
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    Pure River Slut, Oct 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
  8. ISOE II

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    That was the irony for me. We obviously have sufficient ID already. We don’t need more and for those who said were already tracked. We are in various platforms. One consolidated one (with all the security implications if breached) just allows for nefarious means to be applied too easily.
     
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    Oh, you haven’t got ID? Ok, send you back! People are coming in without ID now and we’re not sending them back so I don’t see how having an ID card will change anything on the illegals front and would probably stop genuine asylum seekers.
     
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    ISOE II, Oct 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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  10. ISOE II

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    Sounds like you are partly to blame for being on the fringes?

    Joking aside, the main group of people who have proven they can’t be trusted in this country over the last 30 years or so are the political class who will have the control….
     
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    ISOE II, Oct 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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  11. Daz

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    Although I'm not bothered about having an ID card, I certainly get the concerns around ID data being breached. It will probably only be a matter of time before an MP leaves a USB on a train with the full database on it.
     
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  12. BishopSAFC

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    The only people it will affect will be employers when the immigration officers come knocking.
    So it will be the biggest waste of money
     
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    BishopSAFC, Oct 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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