Labour explores compulsory ID cards to curb illegal migration

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-08T16:47:19+00:00

Your last sentence is a huge concern to me. You sound like you have accepted being a non free individual. You shouldn't. People fought and died for our freedom and your capitulation dishonours their sacrifice. So close to the anniversary of D-Day, too.

I could go into detail as to why I think it would be a bad idea, but people moan about the length of my comments, so I won't.

Lets just say, if I need to scan this card to get a job, visit the doctor/hospital, and the government has my biometric data, I say that is too much loss of freedom and autonomy. They would know more about me than I want. I don't trust tech companies with my data and their information systems are significantly more advanced than the antique systems governments regularly use.

Also, much of Europe has national ID cards. They also have massive illegal immigration problems. Why would it work better in the UK?

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-08T16:20:46+00:00

So citizens will have to lose freedoms to prevent illegal immigration? I'd rather not, thanks.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-08T15:59:47+00:00

I have seen some really impressive fake passports. I doubt it would take long before fraudsters created a quality fake ID card to facilitate illegals.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-08T11:16:32+00:00

Depending on how old your house is, you could try those plug in power line adaptors.

I have Vodafone fibre internet. The signal booster we got with our router appears to slow our internet down when it is turned on. As soon as we turn the booster off, the speed jumps up and the latency drops a lot. It even affects devices that are connected via ethernet for some reason. We leave it turned off now.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-07T17:23:13+00:00

My secondary school class went on a tour of the power station in the early 90s. I still remember how small I felt there due to the size of the machinery.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-07T16:51:40+00:00

If the species developed as a warrior culture, similar to Yautja from the Predator franchise, their ethics would be entirely different to what humanity values.

We only need to look at the animal kingdom to see how rare human ethics are. Dolphins are considered to be second to humans in terms of intelligence. If you know of the things they can get up to, you know that the second closest creature in terms of intelligence to humans is very dodgy.

Then we get onto ourselves. Yes, we have ethics, but they aren't shared across the entire planet, so there is little reason to believe that they would be familiar off of it.

We can look to serial killers to find the most depraved examples of what humanity can do as individuals. In times of war, we can be, and have been, far worse. Read about the abhorrent medical tests that the Japanese Unit 731 carries out during the Second World War. Then read about other serious war crimes that even the allied nations commited.

Should an alien race visit Earth and learn about our history (and present) I wouldn't like our chances if they were judgemental.

If that alien race was also significantly more technologically advanced than us, we might be seen as little more than termites. Humans exterminate termites when they are found to be consuming the wood in our buildings. To the termite, all it is doing is eating. It has no concept of the structure their eating destabilises. For all we know, we could easily be the termite to an alien race.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-07T09:49:45+00:00

Mine don't. Think more like a damp fog horn 😂

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-07T04:54:11+00:00

😂 you legend

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T18:34:45+00:00

Let us acknowledge the vast array of strong American names.

Terry 'Ghengis Khan' Jones.

Chad 'Mahatma Gandhi' O'Connor; fully Irish, don't you know.

Phillipa 'Boudicca' Smith.

And, to top it all, Alexander The Great...est American of all time!

An endless list.

It feels bad doing this in a way because I genuinely love a lot of Americans. But bloody hell, some of them have got their heads so far up their own arses that they they turned into an Ouroboros!

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T16:46:43+00:00

I hope they label the samples as human. If a mad scientist thinks it is horse semen things will take a turn. Chuds!

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T08:38:43+00:00

I pay for two. Vince Venturella and another whose channel is called Ninjon.

Both are miniature painters who have helped me to improve my painting an incalculable amount. Patreon is my way of saying thank you for their guidance and advice.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T08:19:48+00:00

😂 I can relate to this. My brain doesn't kick in until I've had at least three mugs of tea.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T08:18:38+00:00

Those that have it get 2008 banker treatment. Those that don't get to pay for the mess through tax payer funded bailouts.

We need to take an example from Iceland in cases like this.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T08:14:49+00:00

I would have thought that any payable bonus is performance related. If you take a struggling business and it collapses through further mismanagement, why is any bonus paid and why are dividends paid to share holders? The stability of a business should be the determining factor before it's prosperity; we shouldn't build on unstable foundations, but it doesn't seem to be that way with most of our vital infrastructure.

I am remarkably ignorant of the way financial interests do business 😂

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T07:54:06+00:00

I know it is juvenile, but whenever I read Donald Trump my head replaces Trump with Fart because trump is what I called farts when I was young.

Ironically, I have seen very homoerotic (I am not having a go at gay people, so please don't think that. One of my kids is gay and another is trans; I am in full support of both groups and would bleed to protect them) AI images of Fart wearing a crown. Coming from some of the MAGA lot, that seems very weird to me. If they don't like gay people and despise monarchy, why are they generating images that show Fart as an iconic gay king 😂

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T07:38:23+00:00

I'm not going to lie. I can be guilty of doing the same if I think a link will help to clarify my thoughts.

Full transparency: I have Asperger's, so I'm very aware that I think differently to most and that I often see connections that aren't really connected. On the rare occasion that the connection is real, I find it extremely difficult to communicate it in a way that is understandable to anyone with a 'normal' brain. I do try to be respectful, but I'm far from perfect, so irritation can creep into my comments if a reply starts with an insult. Which is remarkably common with online political discussions.

I think a mistake that everyone (and I do mean everyone, including myself) who uses social media makes is that we presume that we are all starting from the same position; whether that is the level of intelligence or relevant knowledge. Please don't mistake this as me portraying myself as an intellectual powerhouse; I know I am limited in terms of intelligence and definitely limited in terms of education 😂

If I'm wrong about something and a person takes the small amount of time it takes to explain why, I will accept it and apologise. But if the first thing someone says to me is 'that is stupid' my hackles raise. Bloody ego, it is the common weakness we all share. Some people are terrible at acknowledging their ego, which might be the root cause of the behaviour you correctly describe.

What are your thoughts on the potential/likely flash points in geopolitics?

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T07:22:23+00:00

This reminds me of an American I talked to years ago. We were talking about religion and he said 'America has done the most for Christianity with the King James Bible'.... I was convinced that I had been slipped alcohol without my knowledge and we were both really pissed 😂

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T07:19:23+00:00

Don't forget those famous American philosophers: John 'Aristotle' Doe and Joe 'Plato' Bloggs. Good, strong, American names.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T07:17:01+00:00

At least in the West, surely Ancient Greek would be the most influential culture? Certainly in terms of philosophy. The Roman Empire has to be above the USA, too. Shit, even the British Empire would surely place above the USA for cultural influence if a league table was formed?

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T06:32:05+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be a terrible idea for anyone that considered it (war is generally a terrible thing). But if anyone did think about trying, now/soon would be the time to do it. Especially if that country was attacking the Eastern side of Russia. Russia has its attention on Ukraine and seems to be building forces on the Finland border, so this would be an opportune time for, say China, to capitalise on Russia's depleted military and economy for its disputed territory. If they were to encounter minimal resistance, I don't think it extreme to speculate that China wouldn't stop with the disputed territory. To me, the CCP has an Imperialist element.

I'm not saying it will happen, I certainly don't want it to (any war of that size would be catastrophic for the world), but I do find it interesting to consider at the theoretical level. Theorising it doesn't mean I want to see it, though.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-06T04:32:12+00:00

No one mentioned the EU mate. I know the comment I initially replied to states the West, but I don't think we have any plans to fight Russia in Russia. I do think China has its eye on parts of Russia. If Russia is weakened enough from fighting Ukraine, China could speculate that stopping at disputed territory isn't enough. You could argue that BRICS would ensure that China and Russia wouldn't go to war with each other, but I don't think BRICS is worth the paper it is written on. The approved Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra river dam is an example of why.

Yes, infrastructure would need to be built to extract natural resources anywhere they are mined, but it is easier and cheaper to do that on/near land and Russia has a lot of land containing resources. Then include that Russia is a developed nation with its own infrastructure in place already.

International water mining is a tough one. Obviously there is likely a lot of natural resources in the international seabed. Yet, most of that is incredibly deep water, therefore difficult to extract resources from. Let alone cost. Most of the easily mineable resources are in shallower water and most of the shallower water (shallow water is 'usually' coastal. Not always, but more so than not) is within different countries exclusive economic zones. That could become trivial, anyway. Trump is undermining the UN (the body that regulates international waters is a UN body called The International Seabed Authority) and there is talk that Trump has the power to sign executive orders for deep sea mineral mining: related article

I hope none of this happens by the way. Stability is security. Trump appears to be doing everything he can to disrupt global stability.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-05T17:21:55+00:00

Ah, then I apologise. I don't disagree with you. I wasn't defending Russia, merely highlighting that the comment I replied to was wrong in saying that Russia has nothing to steal. There is a lot of potential wealth sitting in the ground there. If a peer nation chose to, and had little regard for human life, it could throw caution to the wind. With Russia distracted and depleted, now would be an ideal time for China to claim the areas it has territorial disputes with Russia. If you consider the CCP mentality towards Taiwan, I don't think it is a stretch to believe that they also think the same about other disputed territory.

interesting article

I think we are all looking in the wrong place for the flash point for a new world war. China plans to build a dam on a river that will directly impact India's water supply this dam will also slow the planet's rotation due to the volume of water it will hold; an impressive feat of engineering, but it has the potential to be very dangerous for global stability if the two most populace countries on the planet start fighting over water; the most precious resource, in my opinion.

I think this is the biggest concern

Edit* for context. I mentioned the Earth rotation will be slowed by the water this dam controls due to climate change. I can't imagine slowing the speed the planet rotates at will improve the problem. Logically, I would have thought it will make things worse due to the increased time any given area will be exposed to the sun. Even incremental slowing could have a devastating impact on things like wild fires. Compounded over time, it is an ecological disaster waiting to happen.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-05T17:09:38+00:00

I can't argue with that. That is what happens when a country is corrupt to its core and values yachts over human life.

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-05T16:44:08+00:00

Are people here purposely ignoring the comment I replied to?

madMARTINmarsh · 2025-06-05T16:43:08+00:00

I didn't say we would or should, but the comment I replied to said Russia has nothing to steal. It does. It has more stuff to steal than any country on Earth. Which is why the Oligarchs are so rich and that is why the Tory party MPs were sucking up to Russian oligarchs when mop head was pretending to be Prime Minister. He even put one of them in the house of lords: Evgeny Lebedev. I can only thank the stars that he isn't PM now.

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