The government is going to spend a lot of money developing digital ID. They should mend the system they already have.
I was a Trustee of a charity. Under recent legislation I was required to register my ID with Gov.UK and then tell Companies House I had done this to reaffirm my Trusteeship. I duly registered with Gov.UK and then wasted hours of time trying to get Gov.UK to share with Companies House in the required way. After several days of failed attempts I asked the Secretary of the charity to help. She also was unable to get it to work. I have since heard of many others encountering the same difficulty. My contacts with Companies House failed to resolve the issue. As I needed to comply by a deadline I resigned from the role instead.
This is causing upset and losing charities and companies helpers. It is difficult to see why we need another more expensive system of digi government ID, or why the contractor cannot be required to get Gov.UK to be able to confirm information for other departments. This system puts people off the whole idea of digi ID as it impedes law abiding people but will not catch lawbreakers. It will be like the chronic failure of the National Insurance number system to control illegal working and illegal migrants.
May 28, 2026
Indeed I and many others I know had exactly the same difficulty. Just opening bank accounts with several trustees or director can be a nightmare and look at the EU airport and Channel Tunnel fiasco with people delayed for hours and missing flights. But at least now if I claim to be Trans or an MP it can get through to HMRC in five mins average. Not an hours wait then they hang up and tell you to try again! What is the cost of all this in wasted time? Must be £billions.
I see they have an insane £2m bike road in Cambridge with pink tarmac and much of the parking removed so no one can visit the resident easily. Loads of mad roundabouts too. In Cambridge even the roundabouts are socialist do as you are told ones!
May 28, 2026
Digital ID, the latest UN/WEF wheeze towards One World Government. CBDC being the next step in the plot to control us pretty much like Social Credit as pioneered by the Chinese.
2TK and this government love to ban and regulate us but I envisage a problem. Will the Asian cohort be required to remove face coverings or will they be exempt. Face recognition doesn’t work well when you put a bin bag over your head.
May 28, 2026
Allister Heath today:-
Blair only has himself to blame for the cataclysm about to engulf Britain
Yes, his critique of Labour is correct. But if the UK moves to the hard-Left, it will be thanks to the anger caused by his own failures.
Blair was Worse than two World Wars as David Starkey correctly explains. Still as Jacob R M says Blair is now a Tory with his ten point plan (though one of the Ten is digital ID cards)! He now suggests the complete reverse of what the appalling PM Blair and Brown gave us from 87 was it.
Though Blair like Kemi still seems to think CO2 is dirty and “electrification” is good – sometimes it is but often not at all Tony.
May 28, 2026
Blair messages should carry a warning risk of danger, waste or nonsense to protect others.
May 28, 2026
To say Starmer and co-conspirators have no ‘ideas’ or policies is incorrect; they have them but they are bad ideas. For example, Net Zero, which must be the most self-harming policy (admittedly inherited from May and Boris) short of war. Starmer has the ‘idea’ that we need to be a ‘fairer’ society, and somehow he knows what that means which allows him to increase taxes. 2TK believes he knows best about being a member of the EU, and so his ‘policy’ is to rejoin in all but name, until there is no reason not to. Facts and obvious truths don’t trouble 2TK, because, according to him, HE was elected to be PM and HIS government is there to carryout his ideas without question, and any errors are the responsibility of others.
May 28, 2026
LL,
You will always have Allister Heath to quote, with Starkey as back up.
May 28, 2026
The Together organisation, run magnificently by Alan Miller, has recently launched a Pledge against Digital ID. If you wish to resist the Government’s Surveillance and Control Project you can sign the Pledge here:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/pledge/
I have a position as Director of a small Not-for-Profit. I was recently required by the Accountant to provide photographs of two items of identification (passport/driving licence and a utility bill with address) for lodging with Companies House. It was no problem producing and providing a photograph of these traditional forms of ID; the Accountant dealt with Companies House.
I will resign my position if I am personally required to have a Digital ID login.
May 28, 2026
All UK company directors and People with Significant Control (PSCs) are legally required to verify their personal identity with Companies House. This rule also applies to directors of overseas companies with UK establishments and anyone acting on their behalf, such as accountants or lawyers.
So you will have to resign then! This must create a was amount of expensive, pointless and unproductive activity and extra legal and accountancy fees and lots of resignations. As did the DBI checks, also a huge jump in the hassle and fees for Annual Returns now called Confirmation Statements.
May 28, 2026
Its not so much about owning ID nor having to produce ID (we all have ID of a kind)…..its about our government forcing digital ID upon us
May 28, 2026
We just don’t trust our governments to do the right thing …..
”the Government has been found to be giving Mauritius £12million as part of another scheme. The scheme is destined to support Mauritius with economic growth, security and climate change.” https://www.gbnews.com/politics/chagos-islands-keir-starmer-scolded-chagossian-handing-millions-taxpayer-money-mauritius
May 29, 2026
Correct. I have provided the info required via photographs and email to the Accountant; I do not have a Digital ID login with Companies House.
May 28, 2026
One of the problems of knowing a bit about Maths, Physics, Engineering, Energy, Statistics, Economics, Batteries, engines, feedback loops, entropy, logic and even UK Taxation is that you spend your life listening to or reading articles written by people who clearly do not have a clue what they are talking about. This or listening to debates of the ignorant on energy, business, economics… in the Commons or the Lords. Gell Mann’s amnesia as they say.
Even the usually sensible Jacob RM confusing the units for power Watts, KW, MW, Horse Power in his era… with those for energy KWHours, MWHours, Mega Joules, Joules, Calories and he was a past Energy Secretary! I have seen this several times by Energy Editors or Correspondents of Broadsheet National Newspapers! They are often even worse on statistics, tax, much engineering & physics! lady Nugee thought we get waves and waves energy without any wind so it could provide back up!
The government still claiming on web sites that “walking and cycling cause no CO2 per mile” direct or indirect! Written by liars or total morons in Miliband’s department I assume?
May 28, 2026
ID should be simple. The purpose of a name is to identify and distinguish. Common names don’t. When so many children are named Noah or Olivia, calling such a name in a crowded room might cause many people to respond unintentionally.
Many government IDs codes are wastefully long and complicated. A simple alphanumeric code of only 5 characters would allow over 60 million different combinations. If the letters were case sensitive, this would balloon to over 900 million!
One such code could be sufficient for virtually all purposes including income tax, NHS, library membership, Council Tax, VAT, car registration and much more.
218,340,105,584,896 different combinations can be made from an 8-character case-sensitive alphanumeric code!
May 28, 2026
One in six young people will not be in education, employment or training within five years unless “urgent” action is taken, a major review has warned.
The education, health and welfare systems are “no longer fit for purpose” in preparing young people for adult life, said its author former minister Alan Milburn.
“We are at risk of a lost generation,” he warned, with the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work, education or training set to rise to 1.25 million by 2031.
Perhaps the most damaging thing this appalling government is doing then again is it worse than the open borders (near 1000 illegals over the Bank Holiday W/E (cost will be about £1/2 billion) or Net Zero.
By the age of 17 I had done loads of jobs and that has largely dies out too – largely due to mad misguided government red tape.
May 28, 2026
Good morning.
The ever creep of government into our lives. First they make registration a requirement to operate. The they introduce Digital ID so you can continue using said service and run ones business and life.
So if you want to access NHS in England, you will have to register and provide your Digital ID.
May 28, 2026
First they tax you then if you do all they demand you light get say 10% of that back in “services” but with strings attached.
May 28, 2026
So the Government’s very minor food import tax reductions are designed to avoid areas that UK farmers produce. A repeat of the Corn Laws then.
But of course you might buy an Avocado instead of say asparagus, sprouts or sprouting broccoli. Or replace sunflower or peanut oil with olive oil so this farmer “protection” will not really work.
Rather an odd list of foods but all tax reductions are welcome even if they are trivial ones! Taxes up by £ hundreds of billions but £1 back on some odd foods, bus fares for Kid in August and Lego Land tickets! Great!
May 28, 2026
I had exactly the same experience as a trustee for my charity, the British Astronomical Association. The mobile phone registration would not work; the approved method of registration via the post office also failed – twice. The method previously in place worked well and the new checks will do nothing to solve fraud or other malpractice.
The underlying cause lies with the increasing numbers of underemployed, unproductive and overpaid bureaucrats continually hired by all arms of the state. You have to justify employing these people and find them something to do. The result? Pointless, make-work exercises which keep them uselessly busy.
May 28, 2026
Had the same experience with Companies House John with their new ID system,
Been filling in company returns for decades with the old system with few problems, they are now demanding I submit my details again under a new system otherwise it will not recognise me, and I will be fined for non reporting.
The new registration system failed, and has done every time I have tried to use it, I even had a talk through with their help line, and it also failed after spending an hour on the phone following instructions.
Their solution perhaps try again later !.
The deadline is in a few months time, clearly I am not the only one, as a recent report suggested the new system was not fit for purpose, and so far 5 million out of the 7 million people who need to register have not done so !
Yet another complete waste of money ?
May 28, 2026
I am no fan of government over reach but have found the companies house identify verification and gov-one log in relatively simple to navigate and all my trustees are also signed up. Including those with multiple directorships or trusteeships.
As written above, none of this will deter those who wish to operate outside the law, it is just more onerous for those who do comply.
We certainly don’t need a mandatory digital id when we can be identified using NI numbers, driving licenses and passports.
May 28, 2026
I agree. Wasted HOURS trying to get a digital id for a company director only to be told that “I” had one BUT it was not possible to get one for my co director. Spent several hours lodging a complaint with Companies House and eventually had to het her to resign to comply with the deadline. Absolutely NO access via the data set for the company to do this ID verification generation Some days later the response/“explanation” was that she had to have a Personal separate email address than the company one!!!!! No apologies nor compensation. No answer to my request for a free registration the next year as an ex gratis gesture
May 28, 2026
They make the systems so difficult to navigate, soon the only people who will be able to find their way around them are the fraudsters.
I had to verify my identity last year as a company director. Instructions were written by someone who knew the system, not from the point of view of someone who doesn’t. It worked on my second attempt more by luck than by design.
I have the same joy again in October.
What will they do when people turn up in court having to confirm their identity? “Sorry, I can’t confirm my identity because the government hasn’t accepted my claim.”
May 28, 2026
Some of what you say, I found in my own experience has been the tinkering around the edges. The wording and procedures one day not necessarily mean they will be the same the next.
The State creaks because of the layers piled on top of layers to address the failings and missteps created earlier – not thinking and running it through, or creating a new structure that duplicates the old or as the take on new employees they end up running around having to create work to justify there position.
Everything points to excessive expenditure and waste brought about by over zealous waste of space administration.
May 28, 2026
Had similar experience.
The next nightmare will be Making Tax Digital.
May 28, 2026
Then money digital
May 28, 2026
Indeed it is.
Making us have digital ids has little to do with accessing government services and everything to do with controlling how we live. It will become a constant requirement to ‘show your id’. It would take only a command from some HMG central PC to cancel our id and cancel us individually – no doubt at a whim, without any protection.
Clearly, this is the level of authorisation HMG want over our lives – With it’s partner; digital cash, we would lack any privacy or freedom of movement and action but ultimately we would be total effect of a banking system that has already shown itself to be cruel – adding in digital ids will increase unnecessary scrutiny and impositions by even minor authorities.
Choosing alleged smart phones to host digital ids was another mistake – they are insecure and a liability in other ways.
All of which adds up to a nightmare if anything goes wrong – and it will!
May 28, 2026
When systems are just piled on top of systems to keep someone employed things are forced to go wrong.
Good service is yes in the delivery, but excels when it can handle things when they don’t work as intended in someone’s mind when they introduced them.
My own experience shows there is no joined up thinking let alone internal communications. Some years back I was hauled in front of the Courts for non-payment of tax, there was no conversation or communication before just a demand to attend Court. It turned out someone, some unknown someone moved my tax office without telling me or any one, so yes this new tax office never received any due tax the never knew what tax was due, but the tax office I always paid through had received all payments. That was a waste and costly interference through internal failures of comunication.
The only other experience that was out of step was I had the situation that once my accounts had been approved I would pay the tax straight away and not wait until the last minute. Some 6-9 months after paying I started getting demands, then the late payment threats. Long story short someone in the tax office returned the money I paid, no reason given, but returned it to someone with a similar sounding name with a PAYE account. I couldn’t have known it was nothing to do with me and no communications existed. As I couldn’t get response by phone or registered letter I paid the tax bill again to remove the threat of legal action. Again no communication in the internal structures at HMRC all working from home I guess, and passing me from one person to another over many months – After 6 months or so I did eventually get to talk to someone in management with authority to sort things out, I did get my money back, with interest and compensation. The point is the State, the Establishment in its need to justify the bulk of its own employment base creates its own problems, its own unwieldy mess that costs probably more than they collect.
My tax situation is the simplest of all, I get paid, its all taxable, I don’t claim expenses, so nothing to cloud the picture and it still goes wrong. There is no effective way to remedy things just hassle. No Business could survive being run like that. In my minor experience, service is non-existent resulting in unnecessary costly waste of taxpayer money
May 28, 2026
I would love to have done an Independent Professional Audit of all the government systems with a top notch team uncovering the gaps in control and duplication of effort that must have built up over decades of Civil Service fiefdoms and rivalry that must have left a legacy of out of control costs for maintenance and expensive Consultants expenses funded by the Taxpayers.
The Private Sector has had failures but they go broke.
In the Public Sector they we know they are failing but money will be thrown at them instead. Taxpayer money.
May 28, 2026
@Ukret123 – +1 and why not these guys are the management of UK.plc our MPS are our representatives on the Board that in turn manage them as such they all should be subject to challenge. It is not their Money the are ‘playing’ with its ours
May 28, 2026
“They should mend the system they already have.”
Why would they want to do that? The UK Civil Service is already exhibiting Robert Conquest’s 2nd and 3rd laws of politics. Expect Gov.uk One to be run by the 77th Brigade and to expand to Stasi size.
May 28, 2026
GovUK one login is continuing (over six months) to be a nightmare for me and five other colleagues ….all for differing reasons, can’t communicate with passport office, can’t communicate with dvla, doesn’t recognise legacy windows browser, needs to upgrade, etc etc
May 28, 2026
Yes me too. As a director of a company I had to verify my identity for a very tight Companies House deadline and had to wrestle with a previous on-line system in which I was registered but which had now been partly migrated to Gov.UK One. The instructions, such as they were, simply didn’t work and it took a long trial and error process to comply. Then my wife had prove her identity as a PSC and despite me having completed the process and so knowing something about it we were unable to complete it in a timely way, in the end it was almost pure luck that we clicked on a random link and were able to complete it after half a dozen attempts and 1-2 hours effort. Having worked with computer systems for 50 years I would rate myself competent in this area and yet I ran into lots of problems – the design of the system is just terrible, it looks like several legacy systems cobbled together with extra bits and pieces added. I assume then that many people will just give up and resign as you did, and in my view that is EXACTLY what they want. In my view the whole purpose of the system is to massively reduce the numbers of people and companies registered with Companies House.
May 28, 2026
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband again claims that new drilling in the North Sea will not reduce household energy bills.
Did PPE Oxon. not cover laws of supply and demand in the economics bit? Did Miliband mis this section. So is Miliband simply lying or just dim, deluded & ignorant? At the very least it would save some large transport cost for LNG gas (saving CO2 too) and produce sig. tax and jobs. A great shame May and Ed’s net zero lunacy has already closed down refineries, fertiliser plants, steel, concrete, AI investment, coal…
Perhaps his left dad indoctrinated his young immature mind before he could think & defend it?
Reply Worse than that in his own terms using our own makes a big saving in CO2!
May 28, 2026
Yes, the banning of new drilling in the North Sea makes no economic (or CO2 emission) sense. Or any energy security sense.
But if Net Zero did make any economic sense, rather than sabotaging our energy and consequently destroying our economy and national security, then CO2, a trace gas that all life on the planet depends, would not have been declared to be a pollutant and there would be no climate crisis. Only an awareness that the planet is currently slowly warming at a rate of 0.16C/decade as we exit The Little Ice Age which followed warmer periods than today as evidenced by receding glaciers revealing 7000 year old tree stumps [1], 5000 year human artefacts [2], vines grown up by Hadrian’s Wall in Roman times and the Medieval Warm Period when Icelandic Norsemen colonised Greenland where in all cases temperatures were higher than today despite lower levels of CO2 (and no industrialisation).
[1] https://www.livescience.com/4702-melting-glacier-reveals-ancient-tree-stumps.html
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0gl9tq4/watch
May 28, 2026
Indeed, even if you accept the Ed, Starmer, Boris, Sunak and May’s devil CO2 gas/fiery hell on earth religion their mad agenda still make no sense!
May 28, 2026
@Lifelogic – @Reply – not able to think, grabed by a perverted ideology. Which one of his projects creates the largest demand on the Taxpayer? Most of his desired equipment comes from factories fuel by coal in China and are the shipped halfway around the World, how many years use would they need before they replace the emissions consumed to get here?
May 28, 2026
A new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) shows the UK’s electricity system costs are on track to more than double by 2030. The equivalent of adding £700 to the average household bill even if – and it’s a big if – gas prices remain static…
According to the IEA, total subsidies and grid integration costs for renewables will soar from £19.8 billion in 2024/25 to a whopping £40.1 billion in 2030/31 on the government’s current plans.
David Turver, energy expert and author of the IEA’s ‘The Cost of Net Zero’, said:
“The UK already has the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world, and official forecasts show it is going to get significantly worse. The idea that building more wind and solar will bring bills down is just wrong. Grid integration costs alone are set to rise by £17 billion by 2030, dwarfing any savings from lower gas prices.
“The opposition proposals to scrap AR7, end the Renewables Obligation and abolish carbon taxes are welcome, but they do not go nearly far enough. Even if every one of those pledges were delivered in full, electricity system costs would still be £8.2 billion above today’s levels by 2030…”
Even Blair is pushing against Labour’s Net Zero dogma. The odds of Miliband listening are next to nothing…
https://order-order.com/2026/05/28/report-cost-of-renewables-set-to-double-by-2030/
May 28, 2026
There seem to be two issues: 1) incompetence and 2) socialist control freakery.
Australia provides a simple single log-in to most government services from tax to medical at https://my.gov.au/. One’s ID that one enters to log on is either one’s email address or a short alpha-numeric ID allocated when one creates the account. Australia also has an optional Digital ID which one can use with https://my.gov.au/. I understand the Federal Government imposes strict restrictions on the abiity of government departments to shareg one’s personal data. I don’t see why Britain cannot have an equally simple and uncontentious system. Perhaps the reason is that voting fraud is negligible in Australia but rampant in UK among those most likely to be dependents of the state.
May 28, 2026
I have also tried to set up a Gov.UK One account, but this failed during the identification phase where I asked them to use my passport photograph.
I am unable to use the Gov.UK One app. on my phone, because it said that the app. was incompatible with my device, presumably because my phone OS was Android v9 rather than 10, 12 or later. There are no OS updates available any longer for my phone, so I’ll have to get another one.
Fortunately, the web site came back and asked if I wanted to continue by using the old method, to which I thankfully said yes. I already had a Government Gateway ID set up, and this worked ok.
It’s not just government apps. that won’t work on older phones. Audi apps. also fail to install for the same reasons.
I much prefer to use a proper computer rather than an insecure phone.
May 28, 2026
Its scandalous that our government force you to upgrade a perfect & functional laptop or smart-phone just to satisfy a government department IT platform …..we’re throwing away good kit to please our government, a bit like net-zero where upon people scraped perfectly good cars for diesel (sorry that was 2000), oh I mean EVs
May 28, 2026
its the same for company directors, a lot of bureaucracy for little benefit
while the obvious directors from foreign countries who are up to no good never seem to be tackled
May 28, 2026
What is termed the NEET report is out today. That begs the question, is the so-called UK Education system that goes out of its way to teach & indoctrinate predominantly Socialism and Entitlement, letting the next generation down?
What is missing, is the lesson of looking in the mirror and noting that the person looking back at you is the only one responsible for your future. In some places our kids don’t seem to comprehend that education and indoctrination by ideological numpties is just manipulation, being duped for someone’s else’s ego to heap praise on themselves. The see a Parliament that doesn’t work for the Country or its People and take that lead, manipulator or surf and have been convinced that is how it should be..
I’m gonna make a change
For once in my life
It’s gonna feel real good
Gonna make a difference, gonna make it right
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
Writers: Glen Ballard / Siedah Garrett, song sung by Michael Jackson
May 28, 2026
Petition to undo Brexit and rejoin EU passes major milestone – ‘We’ve had enough’
On seeing this – https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2210626/fury-petition-undo-brexit-eu
The enemy within supported by the majority in Parliament. A petition is needed to allow the UK to leave the EU, as requested by the majority of the UK electorate and ignored by Parliament and the State Establishment
May 28, 2026
They have been working on this full time since 2016. They should be asked: when did you stop being a democrat? Was this the first vote you decided to treat with contempt?
May 28, 2026
Concur
May 28, 2026
74 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 27th May 2026 …..
May 28, 2026
Trying to register of navigate certain apps can be very difficult at times.Once you have registered,perhaps 10 years ago and try to use the facility again you may have forgotten your password ,so you ask for a new PW giving your ‘ e mail ‘ address.The answer is this e mail address already exists! I know idiots..it is mine!
May 28, 2026
Good to see Elon funding a legal case against Hampshire police for arresting and allowing to die the stabbing victim. Those cops should be arrested and prosecuted, there is no excuse for this woke anti white Brit nonsense.
As ever Elon if doing a far better job of politics in the UK than any of the native politicians.
May 30, 2026
He comes up with some very generous gestures.