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Tony Griffin retweeted
Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
If I go in a shop and they still charge me for something they can’t provide (because they’ve failed to secure its supply or to stop it falling off the back of their delivery vans) I’d be justifiably pissed off. So why should I respect (US-owned) Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban?
Our Zionist-supporting PM is quick to label something as “hate speech” but not to call out massacre in Gaza as the genocide it continues to be. I’m happy to label him a dangerous and foolish puppet.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c335…
This neatly represents exactly how I feel.
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Rang my HP surgery at 8.00 yesterday. I was 5th in the queue. I got an appointment that day with a private locum nurse in a health centre 4 miles away. Happy with the service but not at all with Streeting’s shenanigans that make this normal and necessary.
I don’t know much about LinkedIn but why does anyone have a profile on there unless they’re looking for a job? #rachelreeves
We know how dreadful this so-called Labour government is. Why do they need to keep proving it to us? theguardian.com/environment/…
Tony Griffin retweeted
Great to see the Palestinian flag flown outside Rotherham Town Hall today on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The result of months of grassroots campaigning. #internationaldayofsolidarity #PalestineDay
Tony Griffin retweeted
Rotherham Community Events
Trade unionists, internationalists & those hoping for peace on International Palestinian Solidarity Day.
Outside Rotherham Town Hall Friday 29th Nov @ 6pm.
Then Saturday gather outside the town hall at noon for stand up to racism. Love Not Hate.
I couldn’t have (and didn’t) put it better myself when I took the same step earlier this year. Thank you, Diana, for presenting so powerfully the truths that have sickened so many of us.
A few years ago Labour investigated a Jewish member of the Party @deeneslen for historic tweets critical of Israel & Zionism it deemed 'antisemitic'. Labour dropped the case in 2022 after the then 82-year-old threatened to sue. Diana has now resigned. Her letter to Labour: 1/3
Now we know that, whoever wins the race to be leader of the Tories, both main parties will be run by unpleasant, racist right-wingers, who will do whatever rich people tell them to. There’s never been a more depressing political landscape in my lifetime.
.@JakeBenRichards If, like me, you find that most people round here do not “stand with Israel”, will you tell the PM and press him to represent his electorate rather than the interests of a rogue murderous state?
A year ago I was a Labour Councillor. I was mocked in the Council Chamber for saying that Starmer was a charlatan. I’m not saying I told you so, but nobody’s laughing now.
This ***** is MP for the constituency just up the road from me. Here he is doing today’s equivalent of shaking hands with Hitler.
How has the Labour Party - of which I was until recently a member and Councillor - sunk so horribly and sickeningly low?
Tony Griffin retweeted
a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli occupation, and is applauded by the audience. Here's Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:
Until recently I was a Labour councillor, doing my best to oppose the vile Tories. Today all we can do is replace them with different neoliberals who support Zionism, private finance etc. How utterly depressing.
