27th September, 2025: The Queen Elizabeth.
I posted a Teaser about T. S. Eliot, yesterday.
Which you possibly knew, if you’ve been reading this blog for a while.
Thank you, and well done, to everyone that took part!
In the introduction … ?
I talked about my concerns about the Prime Minister’s proposed digital ID scheme: an ID scheme designed to prove a person is eligible to work in the UK.
I feel the scheme is unwise
Mostly, because I feel there’s a significant number of people on Universal Credit — the people that need jobs — will be unable to afford a smartphone.
Nor be confident enough to use it, were one provided.
I’m thinking mostly about the cost, here, as a first hurdle.
If I don’t have a smart phone, but have to have one for the ID?
Where am I getting the money?
Is Keir Starmer putting his hand in his pocket, and giving me the cash?
Who’s setting the thing up for me?
Job Centre staff are supposed to be helping me back to work: not doing technical support.
Who’s showing me how to use the thing?
You get my point!
So … ?
I make a video: aimed at the PM, mentioning him by name, and tweeted past Number 10’s X account.
Will it have an effect?
Beyond getting a few boosts on Mastodon.world?
I don’t know.
But feel that being one voice amongst many, on this important subject, is a good thing.
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A very good thing.
There’s a petition about it on the UK’s government’s website: one that — as I write — has 1,613,944 signatures, and is increasing every time I look at the page.
The page is here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
Every signature helps.
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