UK To Get Digital ID Card In Starmer's Dead Cat Strategy

With Keir Stamer's Labour government in total disarray having been damaged by a new scandal a week since the middle of the summer, the latest being his support for the terrorist regime in Palestine, public opinion polls showing Nigel Farage's Reform Party looking set to devastate both Labour and the Conservatives at the next election, Farage scoring easy points by claiming the PM prioritises minorities rights over the majority, and a major investigation into electoral irregularities about to be launched it looked as if things could not get worse for the Prime Minister. 

His attempts at populism failed, with the much hyped one-in-one-out asylum seeker deal with France instantly turning into 1000 in one out, Tommy Robinson's Free Speech march atttracting over 1,000,000 protestors to London, and the threat of a leadership challenge from the popular Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham gaining a lot of support, desperate measures were needed. Unfortunately accident prone, AI technology obsessed Starmer chose just about the most unpopular thing he could have.    

Is Starmer's plan to introduce ID cards deliberately designed to distract attention away from an even bigger threat to his leadership, desperate measures were needed.

posted by Barnaby Lane on Quora  
(slightly edited by a Boggart Blogger for context) 

Prime Minister Keir Starmers announcing a highly controversial plan to issue all UK citizens with digital ID cards is not a policy to s a dead cat strategy. When the conversation taking place is so damaging that you have to stop it, throw a dead cat on the table so everyone starts talking about that instead. You don’t really want to talk about a dead cat but you’d rather that than any of the other topics on offer.

Starmer has had a terrible few weeks. After attempting a relaunch, the second of his short, unhappy time as prime minister, he lost his deputy, his US ambassador and a senior aide in quick succession. His judgement has been called into question in all three cases. Meanwhile the economy has gone from bad to worse and there’s a serious prospect of a leadership challenge, which has never happened to a sitting Labour PM before.

Now to cap it all, a sleaze row is brewing over the funding of his campaign for the Labour leadership. This is likely to involve a police investigation. Starmer, remember, relentlessly harassed Boris Johnson, including requesting a police investigation, over who paid for his wallpaper. A sleaze and corruption scandal involving of all people (shock, horror) himself is simply the most unbearable and damaging conversation that could possibly happen. He has to stop it.

“What do I do?” asks Starmer to himself. ”Ah, I need a dead cat. ID cards. No, I don’t really want to talk about ID cards but it’s a topic so controversial that it’s bound to distract people from the other ones on offer.”