Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Digital ID Debate Unlisted

 
See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/12/mp-digital-id-debate.html.
Despite the fact the government has honoured its commitment to debate the digital ID proposal, something strange happened soon afterwards. Like all YouTube livestreams, the videos from the UK Parliament channel have to process after the end of the stream into recordings. During that time the livestream was still visible, I watched it myself; but as soon as that processing was complete the video was quietly unlisted. This is not the same as deletion or privatization; the video is still on the platform and can still be watched, but it cannot be found by searching. It also will not appear on the channel catalogue if somebody goes there. This means unless a user has the URL in their history or via a share etc, they cannot see the video. This has never been done before with a parliamentary debate video, ever. Obviously thousands of people contacted the channel demanding to know why this had happened. The government responded by claiming that the status of the video was set to unlisted by accident and that they have since corrected the error. It has indeed now been reset to public. I don't believe that it was an accident. The debate was a terrible embarrassment for the Starmer regime. As I said in the background article, the MP's seriously went off-script. They're just not allowed to do that. When you look at this issue holistically with other matters it's obvious they tried to stop people watching the debate because they're planning what is essentially a coup d'état. They've been delaying local elections, supposedly because of "council shake-ups". A large number in 2025 were delayed to the current year and the mayoral elections might be pushed back to 2027. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd5p7y1999o. The real reason is because they know they are going to get eviscerated by Reform. It gets worse though; they have refused to rule out "delaying" the next parliamentary general election. This means that the longed for day when we can finally ditch Starmer in 2029 might not happen. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCgFM0QuJQ. This is terrifying! It is obviously grossly unconstitutional, but a desperate tyranny does desperate things. Maybe we should take heart from the fact they are taking such enormous risks and breaking cover so badly. They're obviously scared of something and that something must be good. One more thing; I was under the impression that all nations are independent with their own governments who make their own decisions. Why therefore is the same idea to introduce digital ID also being made in Australia? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yG-2iFfCTg.

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