Describing digital ID as 'BritCard' will get policy off to bad start in Wales, Plaid warn

Dydi cael yr iwnion jac wedi ei blastro ar dop y cerdyn adnabod ddim yn mynd i fynd i lawr o gwbwl!

I agree with Plaid. This card is another underhand way that deform is influencing the wrong sort of measures here in the UK. And who is footing the bill for this new card anyway?

BritCard? Not for Angles, Saxons, and Jutes then - descendants of the boat people Hengist and Horsa?

It immediately excludes NI which isn't part of GB, aka Britain. But perhaps they're planning a border poll first.

Doesn't Scotland already have an ID card system? If so could something similar be introduced in Wales?

Just another piece of tech that will be a source of income for those geeks and hackers who are already doing a jig around government systems. Honest people are already easily identified; dishonest people will have a new fake card to enable access to all sorts of goodies. Yet another £billion down the drain courtesy of ill thought-out government policy.

By the time this comes in, there may well not be a 'UK' or 'Britain' in existence. Here's hoping!

Weren't we known as Brits before the English came here? The UK was called Britannia by the Romans and I believe it was Albion before that. Having the union jack on it is another matter.

No thanks. It's bad enough we're being held captive by this joke of an empire as it is.

The proposed ID card will have Name, d.o.b, photo, nationality and residency status. My driving licence has all these details on it so I already have an ID card and don’t need another. Admittedly, it can’t be scanned but this hitch could be removed on future driving licences. I have no smart phone so the ID card would, presumably, not be operable in my case. Furthermore, I strongly object to the ID card having the Union Jack on it as my country, Wales, is disdainfully not represented on it. I would cover it with the red dragon as I do with my driving licence. 

We'd better get used to it because when Farage gets in everything will be called Brit

The enormous opportunity is for the business being lined up to deliver it or hacking potential.

Labour seems not to be proposing to call its digital id a "Britcard", or indeed any sort of card at all. "Britcard" was a bad idea Labour Together once came up with. So we can all calm down about that particular aspect

They aren't calling it a Britcard. That's a different former bad idea from Labour Together. There are plenty of things to worry about but the name "Britcard" isn't one of them.

Why do we need an ID? What a waste of taxpayers money. Proof of citizenship or right to work, isn't that what passports or residence permits are for?

Why is it always Labour that wants to bring this in? We rejected this the last time, we still don't want it.

From what Starmer has said it is not really a digital ID card. It seems to be a digital National Insurance Number card.

After Starmer met with Trump in Jan/Feb of this year. Without the British press in tow, who did he meet with? Answers on a postcard

Although I have concerns, weighed up the pros & cons, will not accept a digital ID card that has a Union Flag on it. The name is bad enough as it is. But it does not represent my country. End of. It's like saying to an English man or woman. Accept the German flag on documentation, or else. Dim diolch! 🇬🇧⛔

This isn't about immigration, it's about reasserting authority through control. Blair tried to pull a similar stunt but wound up beating a humiliating retreat. This is the same thing with a couple of added nuances.

Point proven by +16 and - 6 for two comments above making the the same point. So many 'Welsh' have lost their own language without the ability to speak (or comprehend) another, about what they should be called.

Please sign the petition against it. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Do you want to solve the Brexitwave or not? You knew what you were voting for.

We only need this to make a success of Brexit so perhaps we could have a vote to choose between ID or reversing the self-sanctioning.

We already have adequate means of checking identity when people apply for a job. Digital ID will not improve our lives in any way, it will simply be used to control us - that is the idea. State wide coercive control. Every time you are asked for that ID its use will be recorded and you can be immediately denied access to that venue or service, including the NHS, if the government so chooses. It will allow the government to punish those who have opinions it does not agree with. It will allow the government to give preferential treatment (access) to favoured groups such as party members or those with the 'right' religious or political views or simply its donors and members of the political class.