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By David Peckham · Posted
But also Corbyn and Liberty. It clearly elicits very strong feelings across the board, and I'm at a loss to know why. I'm fairly ambivalent to it, but cynical about its benefits and implementation. I certainly don't subscribe to the idea that it's the tool of a police state, which some seem to think. Oh, give over. The NHS patient data project was a complete Horlicks, and that, at the time, was the world's largest civilian computer system. Surely all similar large public projects are outsourced to some extent? The government simply doesn't have the capacity or expertise to carry out this scale of work in house. And as everyone knows, there's no such thing as bad work, only a bad client brief. -
I don't think it's right for the government to force people to buy a smart phone so that they can go to work. I also don't trust the government to put an app on people's phones without being tempted to steal private information by listening through the microphone, looking through your photos, looking through your location data etc. all of which permissions will no doubt be needed to to be given to the app so that it (and therefore you) can work. On the politics, I think the hectoring, condescending delivery of the message was appalling. " This government will make digital ID mandatory for the right to work... Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's a simple as that." He seems to have forgotten that he is Prime Minister and not the Reich Chancellor or the Generalisimus. He serves us. He doesn't lecture us like a dictator forcing compliance with intrusive governance for which he has no democratic mandate whatsoever. The right to work in this country is a birth right. No Prime Minister has the power to stop people working for refusing to own a smart phone or to download a Dictator's app. -
It seems something is happening it’s currently being revamped- any ideas? -
One of those times when I as a non-Brit look at all of you on all political sides with your full puffed-out “I’m a free person in a free country sir! I will never, never I say… “ etc etc basically the full Boris Johnson schtick Now it must be said that this gov and its stated reasons for the card (the Brit card. FFS) is the usual unworkable nonsense that being said, people from other countries long ago discovered the benefit of joined up govt and are doing fine. So let’s all stop clutching pearls, point out flaws in contradictory thinking and just get on with it. Sure, this country being this country will fudge and kludge and basically produce a c- version. But still a farage govt will not be able to do any more damage with an id card than without. I think that line of thinking is emotive nonsense tbh comparisons with poll tax are weird and the petition being up to 2.5 million should be a source of embarrassment tbh
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