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According to British PM Keir Starmer, UK residents will not be able to work unless they fall in line with a digital ID. This is announced as the government’s way of combating illegal immigration. However, I don’t see why they would need to mandate a digital ID to do this when they could just not let them in.

According to the BBC:

Sir Keir Starmer said the new digital ID scheme would make it tougher to work in the UK illegally and offer "countless benefits" to citizens.

However, opposition parties argued the proposals would not stop people crossing the Channel in small boats.

I’d tend to agree with that, but to each their own.

The prime minister set out his plans in a broader speech to a gathering of world leaders, in which he said it had been "too easy" for people to work illegally in the UK because the centre-left had been "squeamish" about saying things that were "clearly true".

Okay, but why was this announced to the world rather than to the people it supposedly matters to the most? That does seem a bit bizarre, but you can draw your own conclusions.

Addressing the Global Progressive Action Conference in London - attended by politicians including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney - Sir Keir said it was time to "look ourselves in the mirror and recognise where we've allowed our parties to shy away from people's concerns".

I’m still having trouble connecting the dots here, especially since one would assume they already have a digital system in place when issuing IDs—but that’s neither here nor there.

"It is not compassionate left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages," he said.

Again, I would agree with that, but what in tarnation does this have to do with a digital ID? How would it even stop this exploitation? The answers remain unclear at this time.

"The simple fact is that every nation needs to have control over its borders. We do need to know who is in our country."

You know, call me crazy, but I assume that for the majority of human history, countries have effectively secured their borders long before digital IDs and long before the internet existed—but you be the judge of that. Nonetheless, one could even argue that the more digitized society has become, the less secure borders in the Western world have become. But I am no political scientist, so take what I say with a grain of salt. If the PM declares that this will finally, finally be the solution to everything, we may—or may not—give him the benefit of the doubt.

It’s unclear if this is coming to a country near you, but you do the math.

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