• Silinde@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are.

    Fuck Reeves.

    Fuck Starmer.

    Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.

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      7 hours ago

      Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.

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        2 hours ago

        When there’s nobody worth voting for, I refuse to play their game. I’m a proud ballot spoiler. Some will say I threw away my democratic right, but when my right is worth as much as pissing in an ocean of piss, it’s not worth having. I’m sure plenty of people here feel some sort of victory for placing Cameron-Hiding-Behind-A-Red-Rosette into number 10 because “at least it’s not the other one”, and I likewise have the same feeling about leaving a message of dissent that a couple people will be forced to read.

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    15 hours ago

    Fuck off, I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital ID that I don’t even want!

    What’s wrong with my Blockbuster membership card?

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      14 hours ago

      I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital

      I don’t think that’s how this works. Labour will spend your money how it sees fit and you’ll like it.

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    15 hours ago

    Jesus fucking christ, imagine all the good the UK could have achieved with 1.8 BILLION fucking pounds

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    15 hours ago

    We don’t need a new digital id, we need new ventilators for babies and bullet proof vests for soldiers. Or, being a bit more serious, why not use it to extend HS2