Petition Against UK Mandatory Digital ID Soars Over a Million Signatures
A petition calling on the government to abandon plans to ensure that compulsory war -style identity documents have picked up a million signatures in 24 hours after the policy was launched gently this week.
A first indication of the public feeling on the concept of compulsory identity documents, because no new survey has yet been published on the issue, has arrived while the petition “do not introduce digital identity cards” takes up Steam.
The petition, which was originally launched in the middle of the summer, but which slowly resumed the signatures until the government launched the repression of identity on Thursday evening, had around 100,000 signatures yesterday morning. Now, 24 hours after this Softation and in the middle of the Prime Minister who really made this announcement on Friday morning, the petition increased by more than a million signatures.
At the time of publication, he picked up more than 1.2 million donors. The campaign is on the official website of the British government’s petition, where any cause can be made to the public. Under state rules, if a petition receives 10,000 signatures, the government is forced to issue a written response to the petitioners. If a petition reaches 100,000, the petition can be “considered” for a debate in Parliament.
In reality, petitions that do not already align themselves with government intentions are generally ignored. Unlike countries that practice leading democracy, like Switzerland, there is no mechanism for public petitions to really force change. Nevertheless, the petition is a potentially useful barometer for public feeling on the issue of the identification document. In the current state of things, the opposition came from an surprisingly wide cross of British political life, the reform of the United Kingdom of Nigel Farage to the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and even the rebels within the Governant Labor Party.
