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Starmer’s new Digital ID push is somehow more embarrassing than the last

Since Labour’s historic defeat in the Caerphilly by-election, Keir Starmer has been tweeting his support for Digital ID. Most people agree this is an strange, because Digital ID is a historically unpopular policy. As such, it’s an odd choice for a historically unpopular PM to double down on the policies which have driven his unpopularity:

Kier Starmer vs community notes

As stated above, people have added community notes to several of Starmer’s Digital ID tweets. In the one above, users highlighted that employers already need to check a person’s ability to work here legally. As such, Digital ID would only affect employers who operate outside the law (except it wouldn’t affect them either, because they’re already operating outside of the law).

In the following tweet, Starmer claimed:


So we could actually just solve this issue by banning estate agents from charging for AML checks?

People had other issues too:

In the next tweet, Starmer seemingly reveals that he’s filing his bills in an old drawer. This probably isn’t what you want to hear from the guy who’s supposed to be managing the country:

I don’t think anyone disagrees with this next one; they just think Digital ID will change our lives for the worse:

The famously dishonest Starmer has also been urging people to trust him:

Digital revolution

As we’ve reported in the past, Digital ID won’t solve the problems which Labour claims it will. Labour has pointed to the issue of ‘shadow economies’ of illegal work, and yet they’ve also highlighted Estonia as an example of a successful Digital ID rollout. The problem is that Estonia’s shadow economy was twice the size of the UK’s even with Digital ID:

Graph showing France, Estonia, and other countries have larger shadow economies than the UK

The billionaire backers of Digital ID are also saying sinister things like this:


It’s unclear why Starmer has chosen to double down on this dreadful policy just as voters are doubling down on hating him, but it is funny to watch.

Featured image via Heute

 

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.