We don’t need a new digital id, we need new ventilators for babies and bullet proof vests for soldiers. Or, being a bit more serious, why not use it to extend HS2

A 200% increase might mean from 1% to 3%. Also, this sounds a lot like blackmail.

How is this better/differentthan pihole?

That’s true, but it occurred to me in the shower this morning that the UK hasn’t voted for a left leaning government since the shambolic Callaghan government of 1976. Vearing left might not lead to electoral success, no matter how much we want it to as the UK as a whole leans right. Add on the inevitable Murdoch press assault, and i fear such a change would be political suicide.