by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
The UK government confirmed it is scrapping the mandatory requirement for digital ID cards by 2029 – those opposing digital IDs celebrated. However, the devil is in the details.
The government has only scrapped the “BritCard” scheme; it is still proceeding with plans to require some form of digital identification.
“By using the BritCard deception to misrepresent digital identity, the government provided the people with a loathed bogeyman they could easily defeat. The evident ploy was supposed to lull the people into accepting their digital identities by convincing them they had successfully rejected the fake BritCard version of digital ID,” Iain Davis writes.
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Fake Digital ID “Victory”
By Iain Davis, 15 January 2026
UK social media was alight a couple of days ago (at the time of writing) with various individuals and groups congratulating each other, and even taking credit, for forcing the Labour government into an ignominious “climb-down” or embarrassing “U-turn” on digital ID.
A tiny gaggle of politicians patted themselves on the back for defeating the government, claiming “mandatory digital ID is dead.” Popular talking heads were thanking their “fellow activists” for showing the government what “people power really means” and various “independent media” figures were effusing about the successful “push-back against digital ID.”
The message came through loud and clear. If we act in unison, the government has to listen and respond. The representative democratic system works. TRUST THE SYSTEM!
Unfortunately, the celebration was a bit premature because the great movement of the people, the millions of petition signatures, the protests and the stiff letters to Members of Parliament (“MP’s”) have made no difference whatsoever to the government’s push to enforce digital ID – digital identity – on all of us.
Speaking the day after propagandists ran countless articles and reports claiming “mandatory digital ID” had been shelved, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told parliament: “There will be checks. They will be digital and they will be mandatory.”
The mythical BritCard has been abandoned but, as I pointed out more or less as soon as it was launched, the Government’s proposed mandatory digital ID – BritCard – was never a real thing. It was purely a propaganda construct and had nothing to do with the actual problem we face, which is the interoperable digital identity system.
(Please watch the video below, which was filmed shortly before the stories about defeating BritCard were published. I discuss the true nature of digital identity with Ant Critchley from Becoming Stellify.)
You can also watch the video above on Odysee HERE. You can watch the whole discussion HERE. Ant Critchley’s Becoming Stellify. Support Ant Critchley’s work.
By using the BritCard deception to misrepresent digital identity, the government provided the people with a loathed bogeyman they could easily defeat. The evident ploy was supposed to lull the people into accepting their digital identities by convincing them they had successfully rejected the fake BritCard version of digital ID. Hence, all the misplaced celebration which arose solely in response to completely meaningless propaganda stories.
It is hard to say to what extent this propaganda strategy has worked. Who knows how many people imagine they won’t be subject to digital identity as a result? Clearly, a proportion of the population has not fallen for it but that didn’t stop some politicians from trying to capitalise on the propaganda that served their interests.
On 27 September 2025, with regard to BritCard, I wrote:
The most likely outcome is that as anger is stoked and resentment swells, the completely unnecessary BritCard will be flung out along with the Labour government: again.”
The door will then be open for the political saviours, be they the Tories, Reform or whomever, to come to power promising never to subject us to any more of these idiotic government-issued ID schemes.
However, to keep pace with the digital revolution, our digital infrastructure, our cards and licenses, will need to be upgraded to facilitate the necessary interoperability.
Voila! We will rejoice in our “victory” and accept digital ID without even knowing it.
Lo and behold, perhaps the most ridiculous claim of “victory” came from Nigel Farage, who, representing Reform UK, said: “Keir Starmer has abandoned plans for the Digital ID to be compulsory. This is a victory for individual liberty against a ghastly, authoritarian government. Reform UK would scrap it altogether.”
This was a monumentally facile public relations win for Reform UK, or at least an attempt to gain that advantage. In truth, digital identity is a worldwide project backed by the entire global public-private partnership. Even if they were willing, which none are, no government – better described as functional oligarchies – can defeat the digital identity agenda.
