Numpty 28723 wrote:How do we know it doesn't happen already anyway? Does anyone bother passing their baby under a scanner as soon as they get home from the hospital to find out? I wouldn't be surprised if they just take a swab and put every new-born on the DNA database.
We know very little about anything for sure, but this is paranoia on a remarkable level.
This is the UK. We have the finest political system in the world. Our government is accountable for its actions and what it spends money on.
What you're suggesting would require an explicit conspiracy between the government and every maternity ward in the country, far more money than the government could hide and would achieve pretty much nothing.
It's like something out of a dystopian pot-boiler to suggest this could ever happen in secret.