Liberal Democrats cannot be trusted in my experience, they say and do positive things prior to being elected and then they follow the establishment line.
You may well be right, but the evidence of Lib Dems' past performance in preventing digital ID cannot be disputed, and I cannot obtain a clear statement of intent in this regard from Reform UK despite several attempts at asking (although everything else they say looks promising).
I'm certainly not advocating the uniparty, but I want to be sure that whoever I vote for won't be progressing digital ID and will instead scrap all such plans (and ideally pass legislation to prevent any future attempt at it (or CBDC, which Reform has committed to)).
In response to some of the concerns that you quite rightly raise in that post, Lisa, then I'm pleased to see that the Reform PDF (which I'm hoping is a policy commitment) I linked above states:
===
CRITICAL REFORMS NEEDED IN THE
FIRST 100 DAYS:
Scrap Net Zero and Related Subsidies
Ditching Net Zero could save the public sector over
£30 billion per year for the next 25 years.
===
and:
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CRITICAL REFORMS NEEDED IN THE
FIRST 100 DAYS:
Reaffirm British Sovereignty
Reject the influence of the World Economic Forum.
Reject the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Pandemic Treaty and cancel our membership of
the WHO unless there is fundamental reform to its
structure and funding. Reform UK also opposes the
Creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
We oppose a cashless society
===
Which seems to be going the right direction.
I'd still very much like to know Reform's thoughts on that other key pillar of a technocratic state, namely digital ID, though. I am hoping that @Darren Grimes or @Michael Heaver will answer the question, because the Reform UK website is such that the Contact form doesn't work, so I cannot ask them directly!
Liberal Democrats cannot be trusted in my experience, they say and do positive things prior to being elected and then they follow the establishment line.
You may well be right, but the evidence of Lib Dems' past performance in preventing digital ID cannot be disputed, and I cannot obtain a clear statement of intent in this regard from Reform UK despite several attempts at asking (although everything else they say looks promising).
I'm certainly not advocating the uniparty, but I want to be sure that whoever I vote for won't be progressing digital ID and will instead scrap all such plans (and ideally pass legislation to prevent any future attempt at it (or CBDC, which Reform has committed to)).
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lisa-m-82b3165_and-then-the-smart-city-is-erected-without-activity-7366093797744615424-Dyo1
In response to some of the concerns that you quite rightly raise in that post, Lisa, then I'm pleased to see that the Reform PDF (which I'm hoping is a policy commitment) I linked above states:
===
CRITICAL REFORMS NEEDED IN THE
FIRST 100 DAYS:
Scrap Net Zero and Related Subsidies
Ditching Net Zero could save the public sector over
£30 billion per year for the next 25 years.
===
and:
===
CRITICAL REFORMS NEEDED IN THE
FIRST 100 DAYS:
Reaffirm British Sovereignty
Reject the influence of the World Economic Forum.
Reject the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Pandemic Treaty and cancel our membership of
the WHO unless there is fundamental reform to its
structure and funding. Reform UK also opposes the
Creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
We oppose a cashless society
===
Which seems to be going the right direction.
I'd still very much like to know Reform's thoughts on that other key pillar of a technocratic state, namely digital ID, though. I am hoping that @Darren Grimes or @Michael Heaver will answer the question, because the Reform UK website is such that the Contact form doesn't work, so I cannot ask them directly!