A "Free" Solution from an Incompetent Government?
Let’s get this straight. The same government that apparently thinks the best way to stop climate change is to dim the sun over its already cloud-covered country. The same government that can't seem to fix potholes unless one is painted with the Saint George's Cross.
That same government now thinks the best way to stop illegal immigration into the UK is for everyone to download a digital ID app.
Let me remind you: the UK is a tiny island in the ocean, surrounded by high cliff walls. It's a natural fortress. The illegal immigration in question is taking place over a tiny strip of ocean about 20 miles wide.
When Keir Starmer announced this, he made a really big point that this will be a "free of charge" app for everyone. As if we were all supposed to burst into applause, dumb enough to think that anything from the government is ever "free." It's not. It's taxpayer-funded.
But spoiler alert: it really isn't free. In the same way that the COVID app cost the British taxpayer £37 billion and was about as useful as a chocolate teapot—tracking everything except the spread of the virus—we are now expected to just accept this new digital ID app. This one won't just be for a pandemic; it will be with us for life.
From 'Natural Fortress' to QR Code Nation
So, Keir Starmer's grand plan for Britain—a nation whose anthem used to boast, "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves"—is to essentially mark everyone with a barcode.
It’s a plan that turns what was once a natural fortress into something that can't protect itself unless its citizens have a QR code. It's pathetic.
But it gets worse...
The Plan That Solves Nothing (And Makes Everything Worse)
One of the main problems with illegal immigration into the UK is that many are coming not to work or contribute, but to live off the benefit system. We've already seen the UK government provide housing, rental accommodation, hotels, food, clothing, and a financial allowance every week for masses of illegal migrants.
Now, explain this to me: how is a digital app, which prevents you from working if you don't have it, going to help this situation?
All it's going to do is move the category of illegal migrants who are kind of providing for themselves and working (which has its own set of problems, by the way, like undercutting the British public) and force them into the other category. They will have no choice but to join the welfare state.
This means we're going to see more of these hotels, more rental accommodations, more money, more food, and more everything being provided for them. All because the UK, a nuclear power, can't muster up two brain cells to rub together to enforce a 20-mile stretch of ocean.
Branding the Public Instead of Securing the Border
Our ancestors managed Dunkirk, the Normandy landings, and dealt with the Vikings. Yet today, we are told we cannot stop people from the third world on rubber dinghies from entering the UK.
Instead of solving the problem, the government's solution is to brand every member of the public as if they're cattle. Grandmothers and children trying to live their lives are now expected to carry a digital ID App as if this is the best way for them to do their part. All because the government, in its incompetency, can't manage to just turn back a couple of rubber dinghies and enforce a legal migration system.
This Isn't About Lack of Compassion—It's About Common Sense
Bear in mind, my own father is a legal migrant from Iran to the UK. One of the first things I did when I passed my driving test was to fill my crappy car with donations—food, clothing, toothpaste, and toothbrushes—and drive over to France to give out aid to refugees. I sat there, I talked to them, and I cried with some of them. It's not like my heart doesn't ache for these people.
A Digital ID app is not a sustainable way to govern the borders of any country.
The current system is a disservice to people who are coming into the country legally. It's filling up the system with people who aren't coming to contribute to society, aren't bringing their skills, and aren't all genuinely trying to seek asylum. It's flooding the nation with people who shouldn't be here.
It's time for the UK to wake up. This digital ID app proposal needs to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We need to say no, and we need to say that we will not comply with this.
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