Frightening Poll Shows Half of Britons Support Tony Blair’s Proposal for National Digital ID Cards
Sir Tony Blair, together with ex-Tory leader William Hague, has called on the Government to introduce a digital ID that people can have on their phones that would hold details such as their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work status. Frighteningly, a poll by YouGov (who else?) showed that more than half of respondents supported such an invasive and high-risk surveillance project. The Mail has more.
Sir Tony – who attempted to introduce ID cards while in Downing Street – insisted that new biometric technology would overcome concerns about online dangers.
He and Lord Hague have insisted that a “fundamental reshaping of the state around technology” is needed amid a “radically” shaping world.
Critics hit back at the push for digital IDs, with ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry branding it “a creepy state plan to track you from the cradle to the grave”.
Campaign group Big Brother Watch condemned Sir Tony for “reviving failed proposals for an intrusive mass digital identity system and a database state”.
But a snap poll by YouGov revealed more than half of Britons (54%) would support the introduction of a system of national ID cards in Britain.
According to the survey of more than 4,000 adults today, almost a quarter (23%) said they would strongly support national ID cards, with 31% saying they would tend to support such a plan.
This compared to 13% who said they would tend to oppose the introduction of national ID cards and 14% who said they would strongly oppose such a plan. Almost one in five (18%) replied “don’t know”. …
Outlining their proposals [in a joint article for the Times] for a shake-up of Whitehall – including digital IDs for every citizen – they also called for “a national health infrastructure that uses data to improve care and keep costs down, and sovereign AI systems backed by supercomputing capabilities”. …
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, Sir Tony highlighted how countries “as small as Estonia and as large as India’ are moving towards digital IDs. If you look at the biometric technology that allows you to do digital ID today, it can overcome many of these problems,” he added.
The Government appeared to rule out taking up Sir Tony and Lord Hague’s advice – for now. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “There are no plans to introduce digital ID. Our position on physical ID remains unchanged.”
“No plans” – we’ve heard that before.
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What an absolute crock. Purely based on the fact this has anything to do with Tony ”war criminal” Blair tells me this is complete horsekack! Also, I haven’t read the full thing but, how does polling 4000 adults reflect the feelings of half of the British public? Sketchy as hell if you ask me…
Edit; I’m a bit perplexed with Will and his obvious misinformation here. The title expressly states ”..poll shows half of Britons support…” but in the text it states, ”more than half of respondents supported…”. Will, if you’re reading, you need to edit the title to suit the facts of the article. There were only 4000 people surveyed. How can the results reflect half of 60+ million Britons?
Blair is a criminal. Nobody should listen to him.
YouGov exist to manipulate and form public opinion. Their polls are worthless garbage as far as telling us what the British public thinks or wants.
YouGov = Zahawi. Taps nose!
My feelings entirely: completely false / phony poll. And definitely if that non-human is anywhere near it !!
Such polls never lead with – 50% are against do they?
“31% saying they would tend to support such a plan.”
A leading question to make people who haven’t really thought about it say they agree.
Look at Hague’s a admiring gaze towards Blair.
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William Hague was on the WEF’s Young Global Leaders programme and he often co-signs proposals from Tony, he may be one of the UK’s “embedded team” from the Tony Blair Global Institute? He also quit his safe seat, one of the safest in the country, to give it to Rishi who at that point had no political experience.
You forgot your conclusion:
Bliar and Vague are traitors. It’s very simple.
People seem to forget Hague rose to the top of the Tory party by demonstrating his Eurosceptic credentials. When he got a cabinet position under Cameron, he performed an about face and was about as pro-EU as it was possible to be. The man is a charlatan and a hypocrite.
That was John Major’s MO too. There’s a common pattern here. Pretend you’re sceptical of the EU while you are seeking election, and then being a slavish Europhile afterwards.
If you say to people ‘Wouldn’t it be convenient to have your library ticket, cards, passport and NHS on one app on your phone, a bit like Apple Wallet?’ they’d say ‘Yes it would be convenient.’ If they were asked whether they wanted an app on their phones that monitored their every move and failure to have it would make life incredibly difficult, they’d say no way. Polls simply give the answer the people who commissioned them want to hear and are then used to intimidate the public by implicit peer pressure.
or even if you just used the terminology from the title of the article, “Would you support a proposal for national digital ID cards, as advocated by Tony Blair?”, that might be enough to turn people off, much as the media on both sides of the Atlantic for about a month in 2020 repeatedly spoke of “hydroxychloroquine, as promoted by Donald Trump” after substantial overdoses of the drug, given far too late to very sick people in dodgy clinical trials, had made it look dangerous.
Enough of the plug for Wokingham Stand in the Park/yellow cards stuff please. All these efforts to be applauded of course, but I for one am sick of seeing it in every single post of yours
Tony is pushing Herr Schwab’s 4th Industrial Revolution.
The Fourth Reich…
I’m not sure which we’re the first three industrial revolutions. But I do know one thing, the term industrial revolution is a retrospective term coined after the fact and about events that happened by themselves. They werent planned or orchestrated but the outcome of human creativity and ingenuity
Schwab and Co are a bunch of authoritarian commies that think they can orchestrate an industrial revolution but will only succeed in causing a lot of misery with their technocratic psycho fantasy.
Bliar and Vague will of course be able to provide ACTUAL facts and figures to support their meaningless assertions and not a Pantsdown model.
One WEF globalist criminal Vague praising another BLiar.
All they need do is to quote success of a similar digital ID in China…
As if YouGov had a high level of accuracy re public opinion! When the real problems are properly explained, it may be that most will say no.
The stinking fascist cottager Bliar who is Soros Fxxkbuddy is doing what he has been told to do.The WEF et al love this stuff as it bring closer the Fourth Reich .
What concerns me is the total lack of denial in any meaningful sense that this will not happen here .The uniparty lapdogs sit drooling waiting for their brown envelopes .
It is interesting that the current Government non consultation is happening now as well.
At some point the dam will break and these wef loving scumbags will all be staring at us from the lamposts ……
Re brown envelopes, Andrew Bridgen in a recent interview said that UK MPs were the best that money could buy. When asked to expand on this statement, said that in return for shutting up about the bioweapon injection adverse effects he was offered by No10 whatever he wanted in early 2022. He declined & then the proverbial started to hit the fan.
The stink from the stables is all pervasive !!!
Dear Will, I suggest that you do take it easy with the fear-mongering clickbait titles.
They’re kind of reminiscent of predictive programming.
Thanks.
YouGov
Enough said!
Leaving aside for one moment the terrifying and sinister philosophical and humanitarian implications of this proposal, I feel there are some practical points that need to be considered; All this stuff seems to be predicated on everyone having a smart-phone which they buy themselves and pay to have operating at their own expense. Basically you have to buy and operate the instrument of your oppression at your own expense. It is clever stuff that they have made smart-phones such objects of desire that they can consider doing this with technology that you buy and operate at your own expense. This whole stuff needs an operating mobile phone network, if the mobile network fails for any reason, your I.D. has gone. Effectively your identity and existence depends on the continuing successful operation of O2, Giff-Gaff, EE etc. Neither myself nor my wife can operate a smart phone due to arthritis, inability to use a touch screen and difficulties of cognitive perception with small scrolling screens. These discussions presume everyone has and can use a smart-phone but that is not the case, my understanding is that 12% of the UK population do not have a smart-phone. What are their plans for these… Read more »
Mudazolam
Also not just those people with physical restrictions but also mental difficulties?
Misazolam plus morphine.
I have just spoken to my neighbour whose husband passed away.
She says that the whole process is so bureaucratic, frustrating and almost impossible to go through nowadays compared to the 4 cases she went through when their parents died and when everything was still analogue and personal.
Even those few people you can see and get hold of on the phone these days are only interested in entering and processing info on their screens.
And much of the stuff on their screens doesn’t work.
We are definitely on the wrong track, if we continue to succumb to our ‘elites’ tech-drunkenness.
You are right.
And although deliberately kept rather quiet, we have just been through a period of six weeks (since 10 January) when Royal Mail would acccept basically no large letter or parcel to be sent overseas by members of the public.
Why? Allegedly because of a “Cyber Attack”.
The service is still very far from back to the crappy, ridiculously expensive “Normal” service that Royal Mail have provided since they went all computerised.
That’s Royal Mail.
Which other Government “service” will be next? The NHS and Border Farce haven’t worked properly for years.
So, let’s all make the basics of our lives dependent on Tony and Bill’s little card working properly. For which Bliar and Vague will doubtless mint a fortune at our expense and Sunakkers and chums will be able to control every breath we take.
What a genius idea.
Presumably, public sector technicians or their contractors operating the system present the hazard of labour strikes.
The oddly unstoppable Albanian influx was manufactured for this very purpose: digital ID is the reassuring solution. And with judicious propaganda will crave it, we will beg for it: it will sort the sheep from the goats. It will separate the healthy from the unclean. It’s all in the WEFfing plan. Buckle up.
That argument would only work if they used DID to deport them. They won’t so exposing the lie.
Sadly as we saw in the Rona Panicdemic 75% of us are utterly pathetic
Will sacrifice EVERYTHING to be kept safe
Like a flock of sheep or chickens
Unaware of the approaching lorry
To the abattoir
Its not good
One of our local secondary schools locked down their pupils because 2 youths (the words used by the school) were seen acting suspiciously near the school. The school texted all the parents to explain the pupils would be late in getting out. The school was then evacuated (again their words) when it was deemed safe.The police attended to give reassurance to everyone. Enquiries are ongoing. A bit over the top, I think.
I’ve never understood what Ffion gets out of it.
A walking mirror !!!
Bliar is a war criminal responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of people. He should be rotting in a prison until he dies not lauded as a senior statesman. No to digital ids. Incidentally COVID is a short form for Certicate of Vaccination ID. Makes one think doesn’t it?
The MSM, naturally, do not report the dangers attendant on this. Instead the public are lead to believe that digital ID of the existing population will, in some undefined way, restrict illegal immigration (invasion?).
YouGov? Do me a favour! Zahawi did it for a larf.
Sir Tony ! F off with that 😵💫
These archaic titles…ridiculous.
Highly suspicious of people with titles, why have they been paid off with these baubles?
Bliar will do just fine Freddy.😀
What happens when there is a power outage? Lose your phone? Get mugged and it’s smashed up?
Who are Tony Blair and William Hague to be laying down the law on intrusive and dangerous digital ID?!
It’s way past time for an examination of washed up politicians who continue influencing international policy…e.g. the likes of Blair, Hague and others.
For instance former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard…who is now chair of Wellcome Trust…that’s interesting to think about…
As is the influence of the World Economic Forum, that had former Australian prime puppet Scott Morrison reporting in, see: Special Address by Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia | Davos Agenda 2022
I remember Bliar saying in the late 90’s “I want every household to have the internet”, back when the internet at home was still something which was nice if you could afford it. Now we know why he wanted this. He was not being altruistic. He had foresight. Right now, the public is being conned with method after method of being spied on in our own homes: Alexa, Ring doorbells, smart meters; and in our cars, dashcams, and black boxes; all sold to us as ways to make our lives easier. It will be telescreens next.
This Is a classic distraction tactic!! Don’t be fooled.
You need to respond to this consultation by 1st March:
Consultation on draft legislation to support identity verificationhttps://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-to-help-more-people-prove-their-identity-online/consultation-on-draft-legislation-to-support-identity-verification
Polls can say whatever the people paying for them want to them to say.
They’re a tool to nudge the rest of the sheep into how they should be thinking.
They mean squat.
YouGov…says all you need to know. Total and utter nonsense. Blair needs indicting on war crimes.
YouGov polls are an utter nonsense the questions are loaded and the people who take part are mainly left wing. I gave up participating for those very reasons the whole thing was and still is b*****ks.
Blair has delusions of adequcey. The vote held in Islington no doubt. Try Dover Tone and view your handiwork in real-time. He didn’t want Dr Kelly to have a digital ID.
If you’ve a spare ten minutes or so it’s very worthwhile to look at some of the best rated replies to the “poll”.
Roughly 90% are against and most of them call out Blair for what he is, a War Criminal, and where he should be, jail.
The RPTB will have to do a lot better before ID/Social Credit Cards will fly.
Like for example, creating a mass panic by inventing pathogens which can only ever be cured by mRNA jabs, deliberately destabilising economies to bring in Universal credit to rescue the Elite, deliberately creating a war in Eastern Europe to blame Russia, capturing the MSM to use as a propaganda tool, frightening people-especially kids, that the world will end if because of excess Co2, etc etc.
They’d never be able to do any of those things in the western world. We’re a civilised democracy.
You forgot UFOs…and derailed trains with deadly chemicals…which they deliberately set on fire to cause a poisonous cloud…and various other explosions and fires…in food factories for example…etc…
😀 😀
Why is Tony Blair repeatedly bought out of his hell hole to opinionate on everything? from vaccines to I.D ? this man was the architect of the downfall of this country, everything since his being in office has literally gone to sh–. Subsequent Primeministers have been carbon copies of the man and his policies. Let us not forget this was the man who opened the door to unlimited migration, this was the man who changed the relationship with GP’s such that they get paid more to do less, this was the Man along with Alistair Campbell whose behaviour bought about the death of David Kelly, and Blair was the man who took us into a war on the basis of a lie, who killed hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children in Iraq, and killed our own soldiers through his vain glorious war. From his parastic, meglomania driven foundation (a wonderful tax dodge), and his association with the billionaires at WEF who he so desperately craves to be a part of, this man has zero concern for others, he is driven by ego and the glory of himself, nothing an no one is too big a sacrifice to this… Read more »
How does that work?!
Badly !!
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I get the distinct impression that you don’t like Blair very much.
I’d add to your list – dumbing down education so that kids become incapable of thinking for themselves (deliberately done), promoting death by vaccination and transforming the Labour party into, well, God knows what – but Labour it ain’t.
The fact that warmongering death machine Blair has partnered with Hague should be evidence enough to anyone who still throws around the word ‘conspiracy theory’ that democracy is as dead as fried chicken and this marks the roll out of a deeply terrifying total control agenda. One there will be no coming back from. Lula in Brazil has just made digital ID and vaccines the cornerstone of citizens right to exist and just as the Covid restrictions did, this is spreading in lockstep across the world
I’m going to get some boxes of leaflets printed again and start delivering around my local area. The Together Declaration have some good templates. If we don’t fight this with every bone in our body by alerting everyone who’s still asleep on the ground at local level, we are finished.
We shouldn’t be surprised. This is more evidence as to why we should only accept referenda on issues that are fully and openly debated in the mainstream media. If they are not, the narrative swallowing majority will always win. For example, I oppose the various attempts to hold a referendum on climate change – it is not possible to have an open, public debate.
People support the idea of Digital ID cards because they think the project is literally about having a convenient ID they can have on their phone.
When people are told that their personal information could be hacked, that information about them can be incorrectly added, that the ID will be used to track where people go, what they do, and that the ID can be used to coerce people into doing what the government demands or else they can be denied access to services, travel, even what they can buy, that support melts away.
What’s needed is an information campaign to show how dangerous digital ID, and digital currency replacing cash, will be to people’s individual freedom and liberty, because government will hand itself almost unlimited power to control citizens.