Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian June 10, 2025
A new report from a British government think tank offers some clear insights into the Starmer administration’s plan to introduce a universal digital ID.
That digital ID – in one form or another – is a major part of the endgame is not any kind of revelation. We’ve known that was the plan for years, but the report tells us quite a lot about how it’s going to be sold to the public.
I guess we should go ahead and dive in.
The Thinktank
The report was published just this week by Labour Together – formerly “The Common Good” – a thinktank founded in “Labour’s wilderness years” to help “make Labour electable again”, according to their about page.
Translation: They’re centrist globalist Blairite shills who helped undermine and destroy the only vaguely genuine movement in the last 50 years of British “democracy” and now publish reports to push a globalist agenda.
According to the Electoral Commission, they received over £ 9 million in donations last year (from only 234 donors), much of which seems to have been “donated” by Labour Together Limited, a for-profit company. The murky world of Westminster finances is not my focus, however, and I’m sure it’s at least passably legal and no more corrupt than is standard practice in those circles.
Exactly how a think tank with eighteen employees, ten advisors, four policy fellows and five board members manages to spend 9 million pounds writing a newsletter a week, a report every two months and doing some online polls I have no idea.
It’s a good question for another time, perhaps. For now, we know everything we need to know – Labour Together are old-fashioned New Labour types shilling for globalist tyranny.
The Authors
We won’t talk long about the authors, because there’s not much point. They’re names on a title a page, and while I’m sure they believe in the words they write (or at least, asked ChatGPT to write), it’s also true their job requires they believe it.
I just wanted to point out that the three supposed authors of this work on technology have no tech backgrounds at all. The closest any of them comes is Laurel Boxall, the “about the authors” section of the report proudly declares she has a Masters from Cambridge “focusing on AI”, but a bit a of digging reveals it’s a Masters in “Digital Humanities” with a focus on fictional portrayals of AI in media. Apparently, that qualifies you to become a “tech policy advisor”.
Which is interesting, because it demonstrates that they consider fictional portrayals of AI to be as relevant to this work as real AI experience. An apposite commentary on the state of society in general.
The Name
They’re calling it “Britcard”, probably because the massively out-of-touch market relations types who end up naming these things thought it sounded friendly.
The prefix “Brit” makes things sound familiar and non-threatening. “Britcard”. So much better than mandatory government-issued digital identity papers. (“Britcoin”, too, down the line, instead of programmable digital currency…but that’s another article for another time).
You can sort of see what they’re going for, the kind of knowingly cringe, ironically patriotic self self-aware Britishness that was the hallmark of New Labour in the halcyon days of Blair pre-Iraq.
That’s very much the crux of it – Blair.
Digital ID is Blair’s baby. One of the authors works for the Tony Blair Institute. Labour Together was founded by Blairite MPs and is staffed with ex-members of Blair’s cabinet.
The name is old-style Cool Britannia soft authoritarianism. The informal tyrant who isn’t afraid of having a jam sesh and getting down with the kids. The “cool” teacher who let’s you use his first name, undoes his top button and plays the guitar at weekends.
The Report
Published just a few days ago, the report is titled…
BritCard: A progressive digital identity for Britain
…which tells you most of what you need to know, without even bothering to read the body of the text. But, unfortunately, “bothering to read the body of the text” is a pretty accurate summary of my job description, so on we must plough.
I would note that even in using the word “progressive”, the authors demonstrate a remarkable ability to be out of touch. That word’s hay day is long over, and it has been regarded with scepticism if not outright suspicion by most thinking people for a long time. As we mentioned above, it betrays an almost old-fashioned tone more in keeping with the politics of a previous generation.
The report is 28 pages long, but once you remove the double-talk and graphs, it can essentially be summed up in three bullet points:
- Digital ID will help control illegal immigration.
- It can then be expanded to other things, too.
- Polls say everyone is fine with this.
Points 1 & 2 tell us how this rollout is going to go. The “BritCard” will be introduced, primarily, as a part of a “strategy to tackle illegal migration” [page 8]:
Given the very significant political and delivery benefits, moderate costs and the deliverability of this policy, the Government should announce as early as possible in Summer 2025 its intention to explore introducing a digital right-to-work and right-to-rent credential, as part of its plan to tackle illegal migration.
This will include the new legislation required that will make “BritCard” the only way to apply for a job or find a place to live [page 25]. Employers and landlords will be forced to use it.
Then, once that is in place, it will expand to include other services [page 14]:
Over time, the same system used to support the right-to-work and right-to-rent credentials could underpin many other features, allowing users to access and use a wide range of data and attributes generated by interacting with the public sector. For instance, the digital driving license and associated data, a proof of age feature, and healthcare records could be accessed and shared at the user’s discretion via BritCard.
Much like the smoking ban, the plan is to introduce it gradually…
The BritCard would be made available from a given date (say 1 September 2027), and made compulsory for all workers, tenants, employers and landlords to use from a later date (say 1 March 2028). It would have a gradual effect since only a small proportion of the population signs a new employment contract or rental agreement each year. We recommend that the credential is made mandatory for new employment and rental contracts signed following the introduction date. We do not recommend obliging employers and landlords to re-check all existing employees and tenants, to avoid creating unnecessary disruption and costs
What’s interesting is that, while this is supposedly a report written by “tech advisors”, in many ways it’s more like an internal memo from an advertising agency. It’s about selling a system that essentially already exists in piecemeal form under a unifying rebrand to make it seem “eye-catching”.
To support better awareness and uptake of the new credentials, the Gov.UK App and Gov.UK Wallet could be relaunched as the “BritCard App”. This would create an eye-catching, memorable brand
All the while, pump the media space with marketing to sell the concept as normal or even “familiar”:
By introducing a mandatory, universal, national identity credential the Labour Government has the opportunity to build a new piece of civic infrastructure, something that would become a familiar feature of daily life for everyone in the country.
That kind of sentiment – the casual creepiness of the liberal tyrant – is interspersed throughout. Phrases that no doubt seemed benign to the author in the writing, but appear decidedly ominous in the reading.
This, for example:
For a progressive society to work, it needs to be able to collectively agree who is allowed to join it
Disregarding the very poor English, the sentiment is…off-putting.
Very poor English is another recurring theme. It is, honestly, barely literate in places, to the point it is entirely believable it was AI-generated using prompts.
As for the polls showing “widespread public support” for the plan, well, we can disregard them.
Polls are malleable. They are a tool to market pre-existing policy rather than steer undecided policy. Labour Together apparently did their own polling and – shockingly – found that most people agree with them.
Those are the general points; in terms of specifics, the report is fairly threadbare. There is very little in the way of technical analysis; indeed, there’s very little in the way of understanding of reality.
For example, the report stresses – multiple times – that the proposed digital identity would be “mandatory, universal and free of charge”, without ever processing that you can’t make a smartphone app mandatory without making smartphones themselves mandatory. And while they may be ubiquitous, they are currently far from universal.
The report pays lip service to “in person support channels” for “non-smartphone owners and those with low digital-skills”, but doesn’t ever actually try to explain how that could practically work.
But of course none of that really matters to the intended audience.
Reports like this don’t exist to inform or convince, they’re only meant to echo the opinions of people who already agree with their conclusions. They don’t really exist to be read at all, they exist to be referenced.
A jumping off point for articles like Polly Toynbee’s in yesterday’s Guardian.
It is not an argument, it is an excuse to turn a made-up poll into a hyperlink. A source for source’s sake. A Wikipedia footnote they know most people will never click.
Further, it is a part of a process that must be seen to take place to maintain the illusion of political cause and effect. If it appears slapdash and lazy, that’s largely because it is. A token effort required to tick a box.
This is our desired outcome, we need some research to recommend that we do it.
And, hey presto, here it is.
Summary
In closing, we should ask “what does this report tell us about digital ID we didn’t already know?”
And the answer is a little, not a lot. We already new digital ID schemes were inevitable, and would likely be pushed through (in the UK anyway) as an answer to illegal immigration.
What this report shows us is the marketing strategy for the coming year, and it’s fairly simple:
- Rebrand digital ID to a friendly-sounding name.
- Introduce it for a specific purpose on a hot-button issue.
- Make it mandatory for that purpose.
- Slowly add more optional services.
- Gradually make them mandatory too.
Which we could probably have figured out, but it’s always nice to get things in writing.
One more thing…
I want to leave you with a simple question. The final sentence of the report is a recommendation that the government should…
Hire a very senior, high-profile and experienced political figure head or tech sector professional to be the cross-government champion and external face of its digital identity programme
I know enough about the workings of these things to know that this sentence would not be there if the author(s) didn’t have a shortlist of names in mind, if not one specific person.
Who do you think the high-profile political “figure head”(sic) could be?
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you think its just notting hill ?
its the whole of the UK
traitorous politicians have given away the country my father and grandfather yours too
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I think it’s hilarious that Kit takes this position that some how, British thicko sheeple care, or even have the motivation to break wind?
They don’t see or understand the Nazi tyranny they live under.
I was listening to Ian Proud, a former diplomat (spy) who was based in Moscow. He answers the questions with typical shady language, and even tells astonishing lies on Judging Freedom. But his pet concern is that Starmer is stealing from the thicko sheeple, and giving it to UKraine. First, you can’t steal from thicko sheeple, who have nothing… they’re on the hook for the debt, so they don’t own a thing. If you believe you own something, that’s because the Nazis haven’t taken it yet.
It’s beggers belief that a so say bright chap like Proud would be so concerned about moronic sheeple who have voted for, and get exactly what they deserve, which is a bowel of shite.
Proud doesn’t question MI6 and MI5s extortionate budgets, just saying. How much do Russian turcks and Russia drivers cost? Well, you paid for it.
britcard rhymes with shitcard, which is very apt for the jew-k don’t you think? As if the british (p)assport isn’t enough of the mark of the beast. Imagine showing a shitcard to someone in a decent country. It’d be like dropping your pants and waving whatever’s been stitched on there in their faces, which is what most people in britain like to do anyway.
British Empire -> jewjacked -> gay perverts + brown skinned immigrant invaders -> a huge steaming pile of shit that everyone in the world hates
Flood the country with foreign hordes and then claim you need the Shitcard digital ID to control illegal immigration. Same ZOG game in U.S. mandating Real ID with the Judeo Communist yellow star on it.
“…the Gov.UK App and Gov.UK Wallet could be relaunched as the “BritCard App”. This would create an eye-catching, memorable brand”
…or, to cut to the chase, just calling it the “THICKBrit App” would make it even more “memorable … AND accurate!
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Tony Blair tried to force through the ID card
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Born from the tawdry era of britpop and the celebrity chav imbecile. we now have the aborted and refertilised abominations britcard and britcoin..which is all notional any way if they’ve gripped your frontal lobes…brought to us by the grievously uncool, ridiculous and self regarding creation of b’nai brit..hisen..
..miranda blair cottager extraordinaire..
..lytton blair lol..who wore straw boaters and ladies underwear at oxford and chopped hehe, wood..in a crock band called ugly rumours…married a C list celebs ugly daughter to match and no doubt ‘puffed’ but never inhaled.. at least when bent over the porcelain in a public toilet somewhere in surbiton…and now farms muggle with technocrat shekel.. and shits on the George cross.. or scribbles rainbows on it with crayons..when he’s not laundering bribes…
sick-o-fantically jumping up and down at davos meetups, nodding and agreeing like the creepy skewlboy everyone loathes.. and tries to avoid..
yeah sure…
the best bit in the scribble..is the social scientist femenist who quite rightly writes sci-fi and reviews it, in order to steal other peoples ideas because she herself is fucking bereft of them..think tanking the enter-tain-ment company along.. because that’s what fantasists do..before it becomes policy..
comedy gold..
from the marxist hand book-
Always confuse the conversation so people do not know whats happening.
Turn the conversation any way you can
The proletariat must always be controlled by us
Twist the intended conversation away from its intention or goal
Call in political correctness with accusations of racism or antisemitism
Never let your opponent know your conversational base, just attack.
if stuck blame the Goyim christians or natzis
& Just like the solution to ‘help’ people, so they don’t have to carry their phone around all the time..
such a nuisance taking out & showing the card on demand numerous times a day….
They’ll introduce the win-win solution ALL have been waiting for !
“we’ll just IMPLANT all the info into you, So so easy now with the in built eye scanned digital recognition….”
They’ll que up for it…
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We have passports so absolutely no need for britcard. Britcard as we know is control as is britcoin – twins withvthe same objective ‘control’ a la communism.
Meanwhile, ignoring the shit jew-k, if only for your own sanity, in the jew-sa they’re having another george turd moment. If you don’t know, the “democratic party”, the president of mexico and, amongst others, the “heiress” to the largest shopping outlet on earth, are all calling for a “revolution” tomorrow (ie. saturday).
Anyways, they’re saying they need a george turd to kick it off. So here I am! Here’s my prediction (c) ™ (r): that el salvadordian garcia bloke, who beat his wife or whatever it was almost to death and has smuggled illegal alien turds in at least a hundred times, as well as being linked to tren a shit or whatever it is by numerous other witnesses and its own knuckles, will be offed tomorrow, most likely whilst being “transferred” somewhere or other (it has to happen where people can record it on their phones).
I wonder if I’m right? I just made it up, so I doubt I will be, but we’ll see. Like alex jones, I’ll completely forget I ever predicted anything if it doesn’t happen, but I’ll be back here screaming “See! I told you!” if it does.
By the way. The nazis did it. Like anything.
Article states: ‘digital ID will help control illegal immigration’. Oh yeah, I’m sure it will—, what about surrounding the UK with your naval vessels/guns & simply shoot & sink any illegal scum migrating over? I think that would be a more efficient method for controlling illegal immigration.
The Jesuits and their Masonic minions have been eating the Europeans since 1534, when the fake-Jew, Khazar and Edomite, Alexandro Farnese introduced the cult. The treason is extreme and no one does anything about it because no one understands what is going one. The void of IQ in todays World, is paralyzing.
Brith, is old Hebrew for “contract”, so what are you Islanders under “contract” for, and with whom? learn your history.
Here is a little tid-bit for the few who can think, look up Title 31 CFR, section 363.6 and find the Cornell definition of “minor” -you think you know your language? -you think again.
Our entire history is nothing more then mass deception under Jesuit Military Doctrine, which is the main tool to break down the Nation, The community and the family unit. And we allow this treason to go on, as if it wasn’t a problem at all. The main issue is, of course, the complete void of National, communal and family unity, in all European countries.
Gut health is a major factor in peoples inability to think and act, gull bladder, kidney and liver stones, causes severe imbalance in the neuro-system, which can be summarized to apathy. Parasites raising the ammonium levels in the blood, have a similar effect but it also alters the mind, not just disables it. For example, sexual perversion is directly linked to primary organ dysfunction as well as parasite presence.
notice they don’t call it a ‘SaxonCard’..but a ‘BritCard’. oh that’s right–the word ‘brit’ in hebrew means ‘covenant’.
carl jones :
don’t forget to take your Zyprexa today; 20mg
The only workable solution is also the most simple solution to this digital ID and money scam.
Unfortunately, it is also the most violent solution and the most unpleasant and messy — as in bloody.
It IS necessary, and you Brits cannot avoid it, so you had best prepare yourself and get ready. No need for nasty guns, either, when plenty of Ball Peen Hammers are avaliable. Sharp sticks will also prove helpful; I’d choose Yew.
Hail Wotan!
Oh, we’re not on with the Digital ID Card Wallet System again are we?
This seems to have been on the backburner for the last couple of decades now in Britain. Ever since the Blair/Brown Admistrations were in power from the very late 90’s onwards.
Digital ID Systems are just another form of national and global control. Simply because once they are implemented. It’ll be used to control everything you earn and spend (in a cashless society). Not to mention they’ll have all your medical and travel records. As well as where you live and who you vote for!
George Orwell was just about right in his famous novel ‘1984’. When he predicted Britain would probably become a dystopian surveillance state from around about the millenia onwards.
Even though people deemed him a kind of crackpot and way out at the time. Look around you now.
Think people should have listened a long time ago. Almost bang on the button there!!
@JAMESBALDERSON
they fought for jew briain, not for the english aryan !
@Sarah Solomon
you should blaime your fanatic zionist leaders,
billionaries + rabbis enciting race hatred .
life is not just black/white, plus/minus . it has
all the grades between . and all Amalek goyim
have a natural right to live + prosper not on others !
dr. blake still can’t figure out the vatican and jesuits are jew created – managed institutions.
“The first Jesuits were Jews.” –Disraeli
Look how many orgs may receive notice every time the card is used:
NPCC, SIA, YOTI, maybe Citizencard if different from YOTI. What other orgs may be listed on the back of the card? Or bot listed at all?
@ MARTIN
the jesuit shurely not in britain . it is the jew
in britain + his freemason mafia servants
inclusive Lords + house windsor . all jews,
atleast they believe they are .
disinfo agents on here pushing the jesuits-vatican (not jews mind you)are the real power behind the scenes
“If you believe you own something, that’s because the Nazis haven’t taken it yet.”
Well said.
To the victor go the spoils, and the bad guys have almost won. They’ve been looting as they come and are about to make their final strike: “You’ll own nothing”.
What about “and you’ll be happy”? Well, they exaggerated a little bit, didn’t want to make you unhappy earlier than necessary.
“Brit” is the Hebrew word for Covenant.
The Covenant Card will be eaten up by The Covenant Men – they all believed in Covid, which was the beta test.
Covid appears to have primarily been a digital ID dry-run, rebranding the flu for a few seasons.
loonies still think ‘nazis’ are in power taking away their freedoms and property. its not the nazis but the jews.
Just seen this,
Israel has started to attack Iran !!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/israel-strikes-iran-nuclear-program-netanyahu
Is this it. !
Is this the start of the end…. 🙁
what an utter bastard mob of degenerates.
@wendy
AshkeNAZI….Think about it.
cambridge don:
two different words, two different etymologies, two different definitions–but nice try at sophistic semantics
And the noose just got a little tighter.