Whilst I personally don’t buy all the arguments against ID cards, and would have no worries about having one, I do agree that they won’t solve the illegal immigration crisis. Whilst an ID has a photo identity, unlike an NI number, those who work illegally aren’t providing NI numbers anyway, so won’t be providing a digital ID either!
Starmer is clearly panicking, as the public have lost patience with him. He’s over a year in and the problem of illegal immigration has got even worse and they are being trounced by Reform UK in the polls as a result. The ‘one in, one out’ policy is a complete farce (it needs to be renamed 50,000 in, 3 out!). His only bit of good news is that Corbyn can’t get his new party organised, which would split the Labour vote even further!
Anyway, getting back on topic (😂) the problems that VW are facing are being experienced by many other manufacturers as well. Almost all the car companies are lobbying the EU and the U.K. government stressing that the current EV mandates are destined to cripple the industry. What law makers (and some EV enthusiasts) just don’t seem to realise, is that it doesn’t matter what the targets or the laws are, you simply cannot force people to buy a product that they don’t want. Even though we are only in the first few years of the EV mandates, total new car sales have fallen significantly below the levels that they were pre Covid. Consumers are keeping their cars much longer, probably realising what a much better idea that is, with by far the biggest cost of new car ownership being depreciation.