Tony Blair urges Starmer to bring in national digital IDs to use against the populist right
Former UK Prime Minister and war criminal Tony Blair, or Tony B-liar as he is often referred to, is urging current Labour Party leader Keir Starmer to implement a digital ID regime.
Blair believes this will help “flush out” anti-mass migration populists by forcing them to choose between their rhetoric and actual policy solutions.
He thinks the public will trade privacy for efficiency, and the government will win the debate on digital IDs, which will also help address issues like immigration and benefit fraud.
– RHODA WILSON
Top Globalist Demands Digital IDs to ‘Flush Out’ the Populist Right
By Jack Montgomery as published by The National Pulse
Former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair wants his successor as British premier and Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to impose a digital ID regime, in part to “flush out” anti-mass migration populists.
“What the populists do is they take a real grievance and they exploit it but they very often don’t want to have a solution because solutions are much tougher than talking about problems,” Blair said, adding: “The grievance would be on immigration that the thing is out of control. The grievance would be on crime that we’re not doing enough on it. So you say, ‘OK, here’s what you do’. And then you have a big political fight. The populist is forced to choose. You’ve got to create an agenda that the other side has to respond to.”
Right-wing populists do offer solutions to Britain’s record-breaking mass migration influx – for example, simply capping visas issued at a set level – but in an interview with The Times,[1] Blair implies they have no proposed policy fixes and that digital ID can fill this gap.
“We are putting in place the building blocks for it, so that’s good. But we should embrace it fully and roll it out as soon as we can because it will have an immediate set of benefits,” the Iraq War architect told the newspaper, which revealed he is in regular contact with Prime Minister Starmer and his Cabinet.
“There will be a big debate coming down the line – and this is the political argument people should have – which is: how much privacy are you prepared to trade for efficiency? … My view is that people are actually prepared to trade quite a lot,” he argued, adding: “I think it’s a political debate the Government will win. It will also flush out a lot of people who want to talk about issues like immigration or benefit fraud but don’t actually will the means to get to the end.”
Blair governed for the better part of three terms, from 1997 to 2007, during which time he was voted the worst living Briton. As Prime Minister, he attempted to impose physical ID cards on the population but faced massive pushback, with the British public at that time unwilling to accept a communist-style “papers, please” culture for – supposedly – the sake of national security.
[1] Note from The Exposé: Please read The Times article (HERE) because what Blair is proposing is much more than digital IDs. Blair is urging Starmer to implement a national digital ID system and roll out live facial recognition cameras. Starmer has plans for digital driving licences and passports, which are currently being discussed in Whitehall, but Blair insists Starmer must go further.
Far from being “an instrument of government control” [Blair] sees digital ID as a tool that “empowers the individual — it allows you to simplify your transactions with the government”. Some cabinet ministers are nervous about championing a compulsory scheme, but Blair says Starmer should relish a battle that would give his administration definition. “It brings it home to people and I think it’s a political debate the government will win. It will also flush out a lot of people who want to talk about issues like immigration or benefit fraud but don’t actually will the means to get to the end.”
Featured image: Live facial recognition technology has been piloted in London and Wales. Source: The Times
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