What do the political parties say about the decision of the Prime Minister to commission digital ID cards?
It is assumed that the Prime Minister will give the green light for plans for the introduction of obligatory digital ID cards for all adults in Great Britain.
The plans are interpreted in more detail by Sir Keir Starrer, who approved them in order to tackle illegal migration – after they originally accommodate concerns about bourgeois freedom.
Several Labor MPs have already exchanged ideas about the Prime Minister's proposals, with some describing them as “authoritarian nonsense” and a “dystopian mess”. In our post you can see a little more earlier.
But what do other parties say about the suggestions?
Kemi Badenoch described the plan as a “desperate gimmick” that “nothing to stop the boats”.
The Tory leader admitted that there are arguments for the use of ID cards.
BU She added: “The use of his use would be a very serious step that requires a proper national debate.
“Instead, this is an announcement of the disposable conference, which is supposed to distract the attention of Andy Burnham's leadership of Manövrings and the crisis in the Downing Street through the chief of staff of the Prime Minister.”
Note that Badenoch has not expressly excluded that the use of ID cards is required there.
She also criticized the government's return contract with France as “weak” and added that it developed into 100-in-1-out.
A family of three – including a small child – was currently brought to Great Britain from France. In the meantime, seven migrants have been deported.
The Lib Dems have drawn themselves against the plan for ID cards.
The party's science and tech spokesman, Victoria Collins, said: “Liberal Democrats cannot support a mandatory digital ID, in which people are forced to hand over their private data just to live their daily life.
“People should not be transformed into criminals just because they don't have a digital ID or don't decide for it.”
They added that the suggestions for older people will be “particularly worrying” because they have the risk of being “digitally excluded”.
Nigel Farage, the party leader, said that he was “firmly against the plan.
“There will be no difference for illegal immigration, but it is used to control and punish the rest of us,” he warned.
“The state should never have so much power,” added Farage.
The Greens said that the proposals “generally contradict British values”.
Sian Berry, the former leader of the party, said: “After used in mandatory ID cards in 1952 in the Second World War, due to the widespread feeling, they were abolished in 1952 that they were generally contradictory with British values and bourgeois freedom.
“That was right at the time and it is true now.”
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