Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Loat Seaters for Friday the 26th of September 2025.

I'm joined by Nick and Bo. And today we're getting absolutely crushed by the Stama government because he's bringing in digital ID and it's all going to hell.

We're also going to be talking about how Stama's finished, how this is the last gasp of Stama's regime, and how

James Comey is probably going to go to jail. Something's actually going to happen.

Fingers crossed. Can't...

Something always happens.

Well, I mean, apparently a lot of stuff is happening today.

I mean, you know, so unfortunately, nothing ever happens, bros, we're on life support at this point. But the, before we begin, go get your copy of Islander. It is on sale for the rest of this week, and that's it. And you'll never get it again. And after they go off sale, I always get like a million messages. Oh, can I get that old copy? And the answer is no. It's here

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So let's begin.

Kirstama has announced that they're going to bring in digital IDs, so you'll not be able to work

or do various other things without having a digital ID.

Now, this is pretty mad, to be honest, and I'm going to read from, this is a live page that the BBC have had.

It's probably updated since I made the notes, so I'm just going to read from my notes.

But they say the government's digital ID scheme will enable digital checks on people's right to work and live in the UK.

So they are going to have to have a centralised database with information about

everyone in the country to hand at all times. And it's going to be able to be checked at will

by whoever is intending to access it. They say under the plans, anyone starting a new job

or looking to rent a home would need to show the card on a smartphone app. So you have to have a smartphone to just live in the UK now. It becomes a mandatory piece of equipment. Starma phone. I'll have me a special phone. Well, they're going to have to. It's like, sorry, am I getting a government issued one then, am I? Which is going to be

terrible, but anyway. Well, if you just claim you've still got like a Nokia 3210, then you can't

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