"If you were looking for a hill to die on, it might as well be this one."
Neil Oliver on "Brit Card", the UK government's new mandatory digital ID:
"Brit Card makes possible the tracking of your movements, what you post online, what protests you might attend, how you spend your money, and all of that data is stored forever. There would be no state-sanctioned opt-out... All citizens would become digitally visible to the state across every transaction."
"What happens if you refuse to comply with some or other future diktat? Will you lose access to your funds? Will you have your freedom to move curtailed? BritCard is the road to a destination in which privacy itself is impossibleforbidden, in fact."
"And, as always, it's pitched as all for our own good and the ultimate C word, which is convenience."
"I say no Brit Card for what it truly and obviously is: The pre-prepared, oven-ready solution that was written up before the problem it purports to solve even existed."
"It's my opinion that Brit Card was good to go... before the national borders were abandoned and the process began of shepherding into Britain hundreds of thousands of migrants."
"If we let this happen, then all of the mechanisms for totalitarianism are handed to government, and to the transnational corporations, and unelected bureaucracies, and three-letter agencies pulling their strings."
"By means such as this, the rights our predecessors fought and died for are transformed into privileges we may or may not be granted conditional upon every aspect of our behaviour."
Credit: @thecoastguy
