No to ID card petition.

[Rickwales]

Hope this is ok, ive signed and encourage anyone else to sign it. 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

[Tackle]

Signed👍

[HZR13]

Signed 👍

[Rickwales]

Thanks I try not to mix hobbies with politics but this one's important. It's a slippery slope. 

[ButcherBill]

I'm not keen on politics in our hobby (usually goes wrong at some point IMO), I don't see any need for one or any need to object either, personally I have an NI number, a driving license, a passport, an employee number, an army number, bank accounts, credit cards, several online numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, google details, a council tax number, a car registration, a birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a marriage disolution, a college student number, a pension number(3), many more & a UKARA.

I believe it's been tried many times & it's already illegal to employ anyone without a right to work in the UK.

[Rickwales]

10 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

I'm not keen on politics in our hobby (usually goes wrong at some point IMO), I don't see any need for one or any need to object either, personally I have an NI number, a driving license, a passport, an employee number, an army number, bank accounts, credit cards, several online numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, google details, a council tax number, a car registration, a birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a marriage disolution, a college student number, a pension number(3), many more & a UKARA.

I believe it's been tried many times & it's already illegal to employ anyone without a right to work in the UK.

I agree totally mate. 

I don't trust a central database with all my private information. So many have been hacked already. The immortal quote "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" doesn't convince me either. 

[Lyndication]

It is very British that we have so little trust in our government doing a good job, that we prefer hobbling it to any kind of rationalisation of how it works.

[Rickwales]

29 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

It is very British that we have so little trust in our government doing a good job, that we prefer hobbling it to any kind of rationalisation of how it works.

Is that a bad thing? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 😆 

[Galvatron]

4 hours ago, Rickwales said:

The immortal quote "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" doesn't convince me either. 

 

It's idealistic nonsense along with "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

 

Nobody should be so naive to think everybody has good intentions toward them.

[Tackle]

5 hours ago, ButcherBill said:

I'm not keen on politics in our hobby (usually goes wrong at some point IMO), I don't see any need for one or any need to object either, personally I have an NI number, a driving license, a passport, an employee number, an army number, bank accounts, credit cards, several online numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, google details, a council tax number, a car registration, a birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a marriage disolution, a college student number, a pension number(3), many more & a UKARA.

I believe it's been tried many times & it's already illegal to employ anyone without a right to work in the UK.

I think it's just a headline grabbing knee jerk reaction, a recycled shit idea intended to go some way to placate the masses who marched on London recently, & those who are veering further to the right with their future votes.

I agree, there's already a shitload of info held on us, so why do they need more ?, it won't stop those who already "employ" non documented labour.

[Impulse]

It amuses me watching the Labour party squirm every time someone asks them how IDs will stop small boats crossing the channel and people working illegally in the "shadow economy". Because as we all know, for illegal cash in hand jobs, employers are making sure they're following the law and asking their employees for ID 🤣 

 

I signed it when it was still 100k. As soon as I saw this I searched and signed this petition because this is horrendous government overreach and will definitely be used as a springboard for more tyrannical practices in the future. My guess is central bank digital currencies will be next.