We must reject the authoritarian creep that is digital ID right now, says Alex Armstrong

Digital ID is Keir Starmer's latest ploy to gaslight us into thinking he has the "tough" solutions to stop illegal migration. That itself is a baseless lie, look at Germany and Sweden, both have digital ID, both drowning in surges of illegal migration, far worse than we have it here in the UK.

What else does this remind you of?

Remember the COVID vaccine passports? Those smug green screens that barred the unjabbed from everyday life, serving as a blatant Orwellian tool of coercion and division.

They alienated those refusing a rushed medical experiment, the same medical experiment you were told was safe and stopped the spread, which we now know was not entirely safe, nor was it nearly as effective as we were led to believe. Well if you didn't take the Government at face value, let alone dared challenge them, you faced life-changing decisions.

Travel abroad or be grounded at home? Keep your job or face financial ruin? See your family or stay isolated alone. Those were some the choices the government often told you, you had to make. Comply or shut up. Broadcasters even floated the grotesque idea of holding people down to forcibly jab them or and even shipping British people off to camps, all in the name of "public safety."

That's the raw, unchecked power Governments can wield when given the tools and Digital ID hands them an even sharper blade. It paves the way for far worse down the line: one authoritarian regime later, and you, your children, or their children could face being sent to camps based on ethnicity, political views, religion, or health even status.

Why stop there? Why not seamlessly link to your social media profiles, algorithmically score your influence and loyalty to the government, and roll out a full-blown social credit system while we’re at it. One rogue tweet mocking net zero policies or questioning the narrative?

Zap, thats your train ticket evaporating in an instant, your bank account freezes without warning, and suddenly you're cast out of society, branded as an "undesirable," forced to scrape by on the streets with no recourse.

Sounds like a fantasy doesn't it? but this already takes place in China.

I shudder to even paint this picture: but imagine a tin-pot tyrant pitched up in Downing Street, with his globalist handlers pulling strings from afar, twisting the dial on this dystopian nightmare. Brexiteer with the wrong opinions? You're confined to a so-called "re-education camp,” your movements tracked and curtailed like a common criminal. Wrong race, creed, or ballot slip in a future election? Your phone buzzes with a scarlet alert: "Access denied, citizen—report immediately for reconditioning," as doors to shops, hospitals, and homes slam shut around you.

In my view, Tony Blair and Keir Starmer’s insidious vision guts the fundamental rights our ancestors bled and toiled for, rights enshrined in the timeless ink of the Magna Carta—protections against arbitrary power that have stood as beacons for centuries. Digital ID flips the sacred presumption of innocence into one of constant, computerised algorithmic suspicion: show your papers on demand, let cold computers and faceless bureaucrats dictate your legitimacy over your god given right to move freely in your own country, speak your mind, or even access basic services like healthcare or education.

It's all eerily foretold in George Orwell's 1984. A work that's shifted from mere fantasy to a chilling prophecy of our end times, a stark warning on how to recognise and dodge the trap of encroaching evil before it swallows us whole.

People on the left and the so-called right, are jumping for joy over this policy; they've heard these dire arguments and warnings time and time again but simply don't care, they blinded by promises of efficiency and security. We must reject this authoritarian creep outright now, with every voice and vote at our disposal, before the door to reversal slams shut forever.