BritCard: Inside Labour’s “Progressive” Digital ID

A proposed mandatory national digital ID, dubbed BritCard, is being floated by the Labour Together think tank, set to be issued free of charge to all individuals with the right to live or work in the UK. This digital ID, which takes the form of a smartphone app, is designed to simplify the process of verifying one’s identity, accessing essential services, and confirming employment status, all while eliminating the need for cumbersome paperwork. Advocates, including Nesta and The Guardian, are hailing BritCard as a powerful symbol of inclusivity and belonging, arguing that it will streamline bureaucracy, enhance border security, and even bolster Labour’s reputation on matters of British identity. Kairos, a biometrics firm, is also touting the benefits of BritCard, citing its potential to reduce fraud, accelerate compliance, and protect citizens, in line with the “efficiency” narrative often promoted by globalists. The digital ID is expected to feature a “Right to Work” credential, which could revolutionize the hiring process and help identify illegal workers. However, critics are sounding the alarm, warning that the universal and compulsory nature of BritCard will transform Britain into a “checkpoint society,” where citizens are required to produce their digital ID for even the most mundane aspects of daily life. Organizations such as Big Brother Watch and LSE Blogs are condemning BritCard as a mass surveillance tool, arguing that it presents a false choice between digital exclusion and total tracking. Exposés are revealing BritCard as a means of control, tracking, and a privacy nightmare, highlighting the risks of linking access to public services, including banking, travel, and healthcare, to a centralized government database. As the debate rages on, petitions on platforms like 38 Degrees and Change.org are gaining momentum, with thousands of people urging the government to reject BritCard, citing concerns over government overreach and the potential for digital slavery by the summer of 2025.
‘BritCard’, the UK government’s proposed mandatory digital ID
The BritCard system actively enables the government to monitor your every move, track your online activity, identify the protests you attend, and record your spending habits, storing this vast amount of data permanently. The state is deliberately designing this system to exclude any option for citizens to opt-out, effectively making every individual digitally visible to the authorities in all their transactions. If you choose to defy some future directive, will the government actively cut off your access to your own funds, or will they restrict your freedom of movement? The implementation of BritCard is actively paving the way to a future where privacy is not just impossible, but explicitly forbidden, eroding the very foundation of personal autonomy.
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. This is pure Blairite sleight-of-hand. Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change has been pushing digital IDs as a fix for everything since forever, and now Starmer’s mulling a “Gov.uk wallet” for digital docs amid a Home Affairs Committee inquiry. Illegal migration? That’s the smokescreen—just like how the BIS uses “efficiency” for CBDCs in Project Mariana. BritCard won’t stop dinghy arrivals; it’ll track your movements, banking, and even vax status, paving the way for social credit, CBDCs, and carbon taxes. it’s a “slave collar like the COVID vax pass as a trial run. it’ll evolve into an app tying your bank and everything else, eroding freedoms. This dovetails perfectly with the Web3 hijack we discussed yesterday: blockchain digital identities from JPMorgan’s Onyx to Billions’ ZK proofs, all feeding into a globalist net where your “proof-of-personhood” locks you into compliant ecosystems.
The Quiet Rebranding of CBDCs as “Digital-ID”
The US has issued an Executive Order banning Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), yet elements typical of a CBDC system are emerging, though not from the Federal Reserve. The US Treasury Department is now inviting public comments on the role of Digital ID in decentralized finance (DeFi). They aim to gather input on innovative methods to combat illicit finance risks tied to digital assets, as part of the GENIUS Act and in alignment with Donald Trump’s initiative for responsible digital asset growth. The Treasury’s request covers various topics, including using APIs to enforce access controls, monitor transactions, and enhance the security of financial institutions dealing with digital assets. It also explores employing Artificial Intelligence to identify illicit financial patterns and trends, as well as blockchain monitoring to assess high-risk activities and trace transactions across different blockchains. Additionally, the Treasury is seeking feedback on introducing portable digital identity credentials. These would support anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) measures, promote user privacy, and lessen the compliance burden on financial institutions. Such credentials could enable DeFi services to verify user identities before processing transactions. This approach mirrors the Bank of International Settlements’ (BIS) proposal to assess individual crypto wallets for AML compliance, leveraging the history of crypto assets to calculate an AML compliance score. This score would indicate the likelihood of a crypto asset being linked to illicit activities, allowing authorities to enforce a duty of care among crypto market participants.
Digital ID verification in DeFi – Transparency or control?
The US Treasury’s potential integration of digital ID verification is poised to fundamentally alter the core of decentralized finance, a concept that was never truly decentralized to begin with. By embedding IDs directly into smart contracts, Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering regulations will be strictly enforced on-chain, effectively closing the loophole for money laundering activities, but also sparking significant concerns about privacy. At this juncture, decentralized finance will be indistinguishable from traditional finance, as it will be subject to the same regulatory oversight. This development could potentially pave the way for cryptocurrency to become more integrated with traditional finance, resulting in lower compliance costs and fostering trust with major institutions. However, the drawbacks of this approach far outweigh the benefits, as stringent regulations will inevitably lead to the elimination of non-compliant protocols. In response, compliant stablecoins and DeFi platforms will emerge as the new standard, becoming institutionalized at an accelerated rate. Ultimately, DeFi will be forced to operate within the boundaries of the law, but the underlying question remains: is this regulatory push genuinely aimed at combating money laundering, or does it serve a more ulterior motive? Whitney Webb breaks down the coordinated global push for a new, dystopian system of control, marrying digital ID with CBDCs.
Governments and financial institutions are actively constructing a comprehensive digital surveillance system, with Digital Identity and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) serving as the two primary components that lock individuals into this framework. This system is being designed to replace traditional government-issued IDs with Digital IDs that are deeply rooted in immutable biometric data, including fingerprints, facial structures, and iris patterns. By harnessing this biometric data, authorities are creating an unbreakable link between individuals’ physical bodies and their digital identity credentials, effectively rendering their bodies as passwords. The United Nations and the Bank for International Settlements are openly acknowledging that Digital IDs and CBDCs are being integrated to form the backbone of a new financial system. This biometric digital ID is crucial for the implementation of Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols, which require the identification and verification of every participant in the digital financial system. Digital wallets are being tied to Digital IDs, which are, in turn, mapped to individuals’ biometrics, establishing a total linkage between financial transactions and biological data. Prototypes of this system are already being rolled out, with initiatives like Sam Altman’s WorldCoin encouraging people to scan their irises to obtain a “unique identifier” and a digital wallet. Similarly, the UN’s “Building Blocks” program is forcing refugees to scan their irises to receive food rations, with the value being deducted from a wallet linked to their biometric ID. Under the guise of addressing the “identity gap,” authorities claim that digital IDs are necessary for the world’s poor to access essential services like banking and healthcare. However, the reality is that this system is being designed to exert programmable control over individuals, with their access to society and their own money being permissioned and revocable based on their compliance. This digital surveillance system is not about convenience; it’s about control. The new global financial system is being built on the foundation of total surveillance, where individuals’ every move is monitored and regulated. The implementation of Digital IDs and CBDCs is a deliberate attempt to create a framework of control, where authorities can dictate who can participate in the financial system and who cannot.
That brings us into Project Mariana, a cozy little collab between the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, the Bank of France, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and the Swiss National Bank (SNB). These unelected technocrats are “exploring” – that’s code for piloting – the use of decentralized finance (DeFi) tools for cross-border trading of wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). And get this: they’re borrowing tech from Curve Finance’s Curve v2 Hybrid Function Market Maker (HFMM) to power on-chain liquidity pools for these digital fiat monstrosities.
The Federal Reserve and its allies are debasing currencies, and Project Mariana reeks of their old playbook: disguising control as innovation. This project, backed by the “central bank of central banks,” aims to make international settlements faster and cheaper using digital currencies. They’re testing a digital version of the US dollar, euro, and other currencies on a private Ethereum network, cutting out traditional middlemen. But who’s building this new system? The same institutions that created the current economic mess. Mariana is using Curve Finance’s technology to swap currencies without the chaos of traditional markets. Curve’s system is perfect for institutional-scale digital currency pools, making it a key player in this project. But don’t be fooled – this isn’t about liberating the masses; it’s about the traditional financial system co-opting decentralized finance to build a programmable money system that’s traceable, taxable, and controllable. This project is part of the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” plan, which leads to a system where every transaction is tracked and controlled. The ultimate goal is to create a digital currency that can track your every purchase, including your morning coffee, and penalize you for “carbon overuse.” Mariana is building on earlier projects, pushing for a global digital currency platform that spans borders, all under the guise of “financial inclusion” and “reduced costs.” The irony is that Curve, a protocol born from crypto anarchy, is now lending its technology to the establishment’s surveillance ledger. If this project scales, say goodbye to cash anonymity and hello to a world where governments and banks can freeze your assets in an instant. This is the establishment’s endgame: hijacking blockchain’s promise to entrench their power and control over the global economy. So how does XRP tie into all this? Ripple has a Secret Plan to make your Biometric Identity Control Money and Healthcare.
Written By Tatenda Belle Panashe