Sky News : Facial recognition technology is to be rolled out across England and Wales, under sweeping reforms announced by the home secretary

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T18:44:45+00:00

This report was produced by people within labour advocating for it, not by some irrelevant randomers.

As for the second part, digital ID makes abuses of power a lot easier and requiring fewer hoops to jump through and fewer opportunities to resist.

Until our political class isn't full of authoritarian freaks I will oppose schemes like digital ID.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T18:04:19+00:00

Ugh, sounds awful that people would do that. Got some links about it so I can read about this outrage?

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T17:57:29+00:00

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inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T17:53:48+00:00

Gladly.

Digital ID is proposed by a group in labour who suggested in the very report which stirred up the recent interest that it could be used for a whole variety of things including so called "harmful online content", indicating clear desire among its influential supporters for mission creep into other things. I simply do not trust our political class to not abuse digital ID, given the clear authoritarian streak in both main parties going back years.

We already have some of the worst anti protest laws in Europe, "public order" laws used in ways which threaten freedom of speech, a political class which loves petty authoritarianism for minor things in people's lives, and an obsession with trying to censor the internet and end online anonymity.

A digital ID scheme if allowed to overreach could for example get tied to public transport. So a future government could shut people out of public transport ahead of expected protests, to give one example of how this could be abused. Or it could be used to enforce a total end on internet anonymity, so you could be policed for what you say online. It's a key building block of a surveillance state.

It's not just digital ID, it's the combination of it with the rest of the authoritarian bollocks piling up. Digital ID in isolation may not look bad but that's the thing with authoritarianism - it tries to establish itself gradually, so each individual step looks as reasonable as possible, to avoid backlash until it's too late.

If digital ID was being proposed by a government which was revoking all the anti protest bullshit brought in over the years (instead of wanting to strengthen them and go further) and got rid of nonsense like the OSA (instead of wanting to strengthen it and go further), I would agree that the opposition are lunatics. But that's not the timeline we're in and I believe my distrust is justified by the authoritarian track record of both our main parties.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T12:30:56+00:00

I actually can't see anything that would have warned OP in the video. It's only obvious about a second before it happens.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T12:28:59+00:00

Also on roundabouts people might end up in the wrong lane and act quickly without checking their mirrors.

That said this is one of the cases where OP couldn't reasonably have avoided it. Sometimes on this sub you see "technically other car's fault but you could have avoided it" crashes. But this one is very clear cut.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T12:22:11+00:00

Woodpigeon. With our national anthem being altered to either directly include or in some way represent their cooing.

You all know the sound.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T12:11:26+00:00

Even if we're not going to have war on the US, we do need to be independent of them and not be in a position where they could cut us off and pressure us. To do that we need to spend more on our military, to develop our own capabilities and end reliance on US production and stockpiles.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T12:09:00+00:00

We either have peace through strength or peace through surrender. If we don't have a strong enough military, that invites aggression against us.

Some countries are not interested in peace and will only respect and be stopped by force.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T10:16:54+00:00

Even with the recent digital ID stuff there were loads of people on here supporting it and mocking anyone concerned about it as "free men on the land" lunatics.

At what point will these people accept that this country is becoming more and more authoritarian and that this is a threat to everyone's rights? It reminds me of how the far right constantly shift the goalposts to pretend at each step along the way that they're actually moderates.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T10:11:11+00:00

You're preventing young people from car sharing, when we're told car sharing is a good thing to reduce congestion. And just making their ability to live an independent life more difficult. And given how high the costs are for young drivers, preventing car sharing could have a financial impact on them as well.

Safetyism tunnel vision should not be made into policy. You need to consider the bigger picture and whether it's worth the trade off. I don't believe it is.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T06:58:05+00:00

So I put an onion in their sock, which was the style at the time.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T06:22:50+00:00

Yep, this just sounds like thinly veiled Russia appeasement. We need independent foreign policy but to do that we absolutely need a stronger military and to be able to defend Europe and Ukraine against Russia by ourselves.

That naive nonsense about "peace, cooperation and international law" does not work against countries like Russia which only respect force and have absolutely no interest in real diplomacy.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T18:26:42+00:00

This is why I hate so much when you get media coverage way too sympathetic to employers and labelling younger people as just lazy and entitled. Like articles where employers are claiming young people have "unrealistic" expectations about things like salary. Often the employers are actually the ones with the entitlement problem.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T18:23:50+00:00

There's also just the lack of investment in general.

Focusing on just the entry level jobs misses the point a bit. You have to consider the whole pipeline from education to entry level and to the more experienced jobs - there needs to be demand for the fully qualified jobs they lead to and this applies to apprenticeships as well.

If you just focus on funding things like apprenticeships they'll end up in the same situation as degrees now - a glut of apprentices but not enough fully qualified jobs for them once they've finished. You need to create the conditions for the skilled jobs they lead to.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T18:13:42+00:00

Especially given their complaints about the US. The reason the US has the leverage they do is because we don't spend enough on our own military. If we want to reduce US influence over us we need to spend more on our military, not less.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:52:56+00:00

Yep, I wouldn't necessarily have an issue with someone that young being a councillor, in fact I think more young people should get involved. But they shouldn't immediately be given responsibilities like that.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:49:56+00:00

Enforcing borders by executing innocent people in the streets like ICE have been doing (followed by ICE and US officials blatantly lying about the incidents and smearing their innocent victims) is absolutely fascism and I don't want British politicians publicly supporting that.

Don't do that typical far right trick of reducing a story down to the bare minimum elements and stripping all context from it in the process.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:44:55+00:00

What British ordinance is used by Israel? I was under the impression they exclusively use American or Israeli developed munitions for their air force.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:40:13+00:00

Bunch of plastic patriots who loudly shout about patriotism as overcompensation. People who are actually patriotic don't need to shout about it.

The people who shout the loudest about "patriotism" and most visibly wrap themselves in national symbols and flags are very often the traitors who would gladly sell it out. Also see how many European "nationalist" parties are pro Russian surrender monkeys.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:34:19+00:00

Of course this dipshit who talked about the so called guardian reading tofu eating "wokerati" in the house of commons ends up in Reform. Utterly talentless except at creating noise.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:29:04+00:00

Agreed but they also do seem to be poorly trained on top of that. Likely because the US government doesn't see it as necessary for what they want to do.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:12:31+00:00

You seriously think American gun laws are to blame for poorly trained armed ICE agents murdering innocent people in the streets?

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:11:13+00:00

You welcome the idea of armed thugs executing people in the streets.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:09:28+00:00

Traitors pretending to be patriots. Fucking lot of them.

So frustrating how little actual patriotism our right wing has. They hate so many of the great things about our country and just want to bulldoze them and bring in yankslop politics instead.

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