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Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are. Fuck Reeves. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.

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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.

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- Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  When there’s nobody worth voting for, I refuse to play their game. I’m a proud ballot spoiler. Some will say I threw away my democratic right, but when my right is worth as much as pissing in an ocean of piss, it’s not worth having. I’m sure plenty of people here feel some sort of victory for placing Cameron-Hiding-Behind-A-Red-Rosette into number 10 because “at least it’s not the other one”, and I likewise have the same feeling about leaving a message of dissent that a couple people will be forced to read.
  
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I refuse to play their game.
    
    Oh your a real rebel you are.
    
    If you don’t vote for anyone then there’s no reason for any party to care about you. So your not doing anything by refusing to vote.
    
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    Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You speak as if these shithead politicians actually care about us and what we have to say. Sorry, but that’s utterly delusional, and one look at what’s going on in this country makes that very clear. Voting clearly doesn’t do anything, otherwise things would actually be changing now that someone else was voted in. So you can chalk it up to me being some edgy little rebel with a chip on my shoulder if you like, but I will continue to spoil ballots and talk shit to pricks in power until we actually get some real change or I’m dead, and I know exactly what one of those will happen first.
    
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ofnadwy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I thoroughly dislike the idea of a digital ID, but I still believe it would massively the Government’s ability to detect fraud, avoid multi-agency failures and support better data-led decision making - I could conceivably see these changes leading to significantly more than £1.8 billion in savings over a relatively short time-span.

This does not mean I support it in any shape, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that it isn’t only a means of better controlling people, but it could offer real tangible efficiency savings.

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- Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.
  
  No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.
  
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