David Blunkett - Friend of Israel - ID cards

'The UK’s election may spell out the future of compulsory national ID cards.'

Blunkett (centre). Kimberly Fortier, The Spectator's well-connected publisher, was the alleged lover of the then Home Secretary, David Blunkett. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7522309/RICHARD-KAY-intrigue-infidelity-casual-affairs-sexual-shenanigans-Spectator.html

“Last week … Lord David Blunkett called for reintroducing national ID cards …

“‘Identity cards … would shatter the business model of organized international gangs making billions from human trafficking’, Lord Blunkett wrote …”

“The Tony Blair Institute, which backs digital ID development across the globe, has also expressed support for the project.”

“Many of the arguments Lord Blunkett presented are the same as the ones highlighted by the UK government during its first attempt to introduce ID cards in the early 2000s.

“As home secretary under Prime Minister Tony Blair, Blunkett proposed compulsory IDs as a solution for … Illegal migration, benefit fraud, identity theft and the looming threat of terrorism after 9/11 …

“Opponents … argued that ID cards are a pathway to less privacy and greater surveillance 

– a notion that was fuelled by the plan to build a biometric database of UK citizens called the National Identification Register (NIR) …”

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202404/the-uks-election-may-spell-out-the-future-of-its-national-id-cards


LORD DAVID BLUNKETT

Lord Blunkett’s son with Kimberly Quinn “attended a Jewish nursery, as Quinn has Jewish heritage.”

“Blunkett thanked the Jewish community in 2005 for its ‘extraordinary support’ when ‘things got difficult’ in his personal and professional life, and said that ‘I won't let you down. I feel deeply honoured when friends from the Jewish community are prepared to welcome me. I feel like one of the family.’”

“In 2005, he was presented with an honorary doctorate by Haifa University.”

“He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.”

“At the start of the Labour government's second term in 2001, Blunkett was promoted to Home Secretary … He brought in … measures, including detention without trial of suspect foreign nationals … [And he] authorised MI5 to start collecting bulk telephone communications data …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blunkett