What discrimination? Every citizen should have a passport. That’s how it works in every developed country!
Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds
darq@kbin.social 9 months agoI don’t understand what the problem is.
The fact that "Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination".
Maybe read the article?
Aux@lemmy.world 9 months ago
darq@kbin.social 9 months ago
It's explained in the article. So I will say it again: "Maybe read the article?"
Not every citizen has a passport. And they usually aren't free either.
onymousol@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If passports were given out for free then sure, but they’re really fucking expensive. Mine expired years ago, but since I can’t afford to travel anyway I’m hardly going to scrape together the £80+ for a new one.
Aux@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, Britain is very weird. How do you even live without a passport? No wonder Britain has plenty of identity theft going on…
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He doesn’t consider that to be a problem.
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Is is hard to get an ID/passport in the UK or are their disabled people just even more disabled than in the rest of the world? Maybe the problem here is infrastructure (or lack thereof). You could be the most disabled person in Sweden and your caretaker would still take you to the tax agency or police to get identification of some sort. Not having any way to identify yourself is pretty much unheard of here except for the severely mentally ill who refuse help.
onymousol@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Passports are expensive & disabled people are poor. And no, there’s not much help for disabled people in Tory Britain. Also it’s a bit of a Catch-22, it’s hard to get ID that proves who you are without ID that proves who you are. Currently having that problem with a disabled family member and haven’t found a solution yet.