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GB News presenter Bev Turner has predicted the "end of Keir Starmer" after plans to introduce "digital ID cards" were unveiled.Speaking on The Late Show Live, Bev warned the Prime Minister that he has "underestimated how awake Britons are" to the "authoritarian" idea of digital identification.FULL STORY HERE.
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When you were saying that headline there, Alex, about every adult in the UK is going to have a digital ID
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I can't decide whether to be incredibly depressed about it, which of course I am, or actually celebrating
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because I think this is going to be the end of Keir Starmer. I honestly don't think he can survive this
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I think he's completely underestimated how much the British public know about digital ID
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how many people are awake to this creeping authoritarian government that we're now going to be subjected to
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And I also think there's a couple of stories which we're going to talk about tonight on The Late Show
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which it's like he's kicking sand in our eyes tonight. There was one story that's been embargoed
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We're going to talk about that. All this wonderful good news he's coming out with about how he's going to revive the high streets
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and all this wonderful news from Keir Starmer. Don't buy it for a second
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It is emotional blackmail because a digital ID will change life in this country in ways that we cannot even imagine
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And it requires a huge amount of imagination to really understand it. We're being told, aren't we, that this is to make things convenient because, let's face it, Alex
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nothing feels convenient at the moment when you turn on a phone and you've got a verification and another verification
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and another app and another email. That's not accidental. That has nudged us towards this situation where lots of people will just go
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I just want a quiet life, just give me a digital ID, it'll be fine, I can't bear it any longer, that'll be so much easier
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It's going to make life horrible, it's going to make it hard, and it changes the relationship between the individual and the state forever because they never roll back on it Bev you are probably one of the most important voices and have been on this for a very long time
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and it's Covid that really drew our attention to this, wasn't it
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Because it was vaccine passports that really kicked this all off as a testing ground, wasn't it
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It was. And at the time when some of us said that, we were told, oh, you're a conspiracy theorist
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That's never going to happen. I'm talking to another well-known conspiracy theorist on the show tonight, Neil Oliver, because he has also been saying this all along
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But there's no vindication. Trust me. There's no satisfaction in knowing this is here
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It's just had this terrible inevitability about it. We're going to talk tonight about why they're not having this conversation here in America
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And might they have that? You know, if this was on Donald Trump's desk today, what would he say if somebody came in and said, look what they're doing in the UK
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Do you think we should have that here in America? I've got one of his top advisors in the studio with me tonight
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who's just basically hot-footing it from the White House. So we're going to try and answer that question
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why Americans have a different relationship towards this sort of thing. And to some extent, Alex, I know we have to move with the times
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And there is possibly an argument that the population needs organising better because we have these clunky and unwieldy systems that don't operate well
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This is not that. This is not the solution. to have all of your data in one place
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That's what I'm talking about here. A centralised system will be potentially horrific
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not just for our generation, but for our children's generation and so on and so on
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But like I say, I'm optimistic that the British public won't buy it
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