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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Has Starmer tied himself in legal knots over digital ID?

 15 October 2025

 Until the scandal over the UK government cancelling the trial of two guys accused of spying for China broke this week Keir Starmer's plan to introduce manatory Digital ID for all UK residents as part of a more sinister agenda, looked the front runner in the race to bring down this most incompetent of governments.

Boggart Blog cannot vouch for all the assertions made in the post but the legal aspectsof it are accurate according to a lawyer of our acquaintance. 

 From X (author not identified): 

 ‘Starmer has painted himself into the ugliest of Fabian corners. He wants to mandate digital ID for every Briton. He dresses it up in two slogans: “preventing fraud” and “stopping illegal working.” Fabian Blair used the same lines in 2004 when he tried and failed to push ID cards. But here’s the trap he’s in: Britain is bound by the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 8 protects our privacy, Article 14 bans discrimination. Strasbourg has already ruled against blanket DNA and biometric databases in S & Marper v UK (2008) and against unregulated facial recognition in Bridges v South Wales Police (2020). 

 You can not strip people of their livelihoods or force them into surveillance on pain of starvation. Any mandatory digital ID tied to work or survival would fail the ECHR tests of legality, necessity and proportionality. And it gets worse for him.

 Under the UN’s Agenda 2030, SDG 16.9, states have pledged to provide “legal identity for all, including birth registration.” That language was written to protect migrants, stateless persons and refugees. 

It means digital ID can not lawfully be used to exclude foreign workers from jobs or services. It has to empower them. So if Starmer sells this scheme as a way to block “illegal working,” he’s trampling over the very human rights treaties he boasts of upholding. So, what are his choices? 

 He could leave the ECHR. But that unlocks the opposite of his Fabian wet dream. Outside the Convention, Britain could indeed deport en masse, shut borders, and sweep away the legal brakes on state power. (Labour will never do that because the Fabian project depends on international treaties and courts to entrench their system above democratic challenge.) Or he could stay in the ECHR. But then his hands are tied. 

The judges in Strasbourg have already said you can’t keep every citizen’s DNA, can’t roll out facial recognition without safeguards, can’t discriminate against migrants. By that precedent, he can not compel digital ID without being dragged through the courts. 

And then there’s Agenda 2030 itself. 

It locks in digital ID as a protection for migrants, not a punishment. So he can’t use it against them either. So, Starmer’s “digital ID” agenda is a Fabian mess. It can’t lawfully be forced on migrants. It can’t lawfully be forced on citizens without leaving the ECHR. And leaving the ECHR would destroy his arguments against deportations. 

He is boxed in. The only way he can get his way is if we let him bluff us into believing this is inevitable. It isn’t. He’s trapped.’ Just Say NO folks. Also read an article that MP's and their immediate families do not have to comply. 

 

 

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