🧷📲🚨So let’s get this straight: the UK government wants to roll out digital IDs for every citizen—fingerprints, facial scans, your mum’s maiden name and your favourite pizza topping—all uploaded into one tidy, trackable app. Sounds futuristic, right? Only problem? They can’t even keep actual prisoners from walking out the front door. 🏃‍♂️💨

🕵️‍♂️ When Your Data’s on Lockdown but the Prisoners Aren’t

Here’s the dystopian joke: law-abiding citizens are being told they need digital ID cards to prove they’re not criminals, while actual criminals are doing laps around the system like it’s a park run. From escaped inmates to wrongful releases, it’s clear the government couldn’t control a paper filing cabinet, let alone a biometric database.

The result? We now live in a country where:

  • Prisoners have more freedom of movement than taxpayers 🚔
  • The state wants to track every pub visit while forgetting where they left a convicted murderer 🍺
  • Politicians promise digital safety while their IT departments are still running Windows Vista 💻🪦

It’s not just ironic—it’s insulting. They can’t manage security gates, but they want to scan your iris at Tesco.

Digital IDs are being sold as convenient, efficient, and secure. You know what else was sold that way? Track and Trace. And we all know how well that went. 📉

🔥 Challenges🔥

Why should citizens hand over their lives digitally to a government that misplaces actual humans? Why is control always one-way—tight on the public, loose for the state?

Unleash your rage, roast their logic, or pitch a better idea in the blog comments, not just your feed. We want rebellion with punchlines. 🔓📣

👇 Hit comment, hit share, and track this story harder than the Home Office tracks its fugitives.

Best rants and receipts land in the next issue—no ID required. 🕶️🗞️

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