Newsletter - October 2025
No to Digital ID
Dear Freedom Fighters
This is the hill to die on….
Keir Starmer has announced Labour’s plans to introduce a compulsory digital ID for everyone in the UK. After saying its primary aim is to tackle illegal immigration, he states that you will not have a job unless you have digital ID. We all know where this leads if the bulk of the population go along with it. We hear so frequently, comments like, “it’s fine if you have nothing to hide”, or “anything to stop the immigration problem”, or “it will make us safer”.
We must stop at nothing to stop the introduction of digital ID.
Freedom Alliance was at the protest against digital ID outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool at the weekend. Thank you to everyone who went along. The energy was amazing, many people came from across the political spectrum and from various grassroots groups and organisations. The event was also to support our farmers against the inheritance tax and it was great to hear from Farmers to Action there, too.
Many other protests are planned across the country in the coming weeks and months. Here are some of them.
If you know of any local to you please let us know, we aim to come along and support as many as we can.
If you can help donate to Freedom Alliance so we can attend with campaign materials, leaflets, flags, banners etc, that will be much appreciated. We will also be setting up a ‘buy me a coffee’ to help fund our No to Digital ID campaign. We will have t-shirts and hoodies on our website, leaflets you can download and more!
The petition to stop the introduction is now up to 2.7 million signatories. If you have not yet signed it, here it is. Please share widely with family and friends.
We urge everyone to write to your MP about your concerns over digital ID. It is so important pressure is put on them to stand against it. Please use our template letter below. (Apologies for the formatting error in the last letter, this one has been double checked)
If you hear back from your MP please let us know what they say. You can forward their response to us at info@freedomalliance.co.uk, we will use their response in social media posts.
It is really important to make as much noise about digital ID as we can. Do follow us and share our posts on all our social media platforms and we will follow you back.
Finally, it is the Annual General Meeting for Freedom Alliance on Saturday 4th October, via zoom at 6pm. We look forward to you joining us on the zoom call using the link below.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84661550639?pwd=cHNGYnZsdnJXRDA4bWp4SForMjZLQT09
Meeting ID: 846 6155 0639
Passcode: 933307
For freedom!
Catherine Evans
Leader of Freedom Alliance
Letter to your MP. (Please remember to put your own name, address and contact details in your email.)
Dear MP {Insert name},
I am deeply concerned about the Labour party announcement to introduce a compulsory national Digital ID card to all across the UK.
The government petition to say No to introducing digital ID cards has already reached 2.7 million signatures, nationally, so I know I am not alone with my grave concerns. Your position on this matter will affect how I and thousands of others in our constituency vote in the next General Election.
Amongst my concerns are the following and I would very much like to come to your surgery and discuss them with you.
Keir Starmer clearly stated that digital ID was being brought in to help stop illegals working in the UK. However, it is very unclear how forcing everyone legitimately here in the UK to have a digital ID would stop that. Usual documentation such as passports, driving licence and birth certificates are also at risk of being seriously undermined and mistrusted. People working in the black/grey market are already below the radar, this would have little impact on their ability to obtain work. Implying that a digital ID would somehow curb illegal immigration by stopping the boats is hilarious. Has any research been done on the response to the Digital ID proposal by the next wave of illegals on the beaches of Calais, the deserts of sub-Saharan Africa, the mountains of Afghanistan, to the threat of a digital ID? People coming to the UK desperately in search of a better life are not going to be so easily dissuaded. Evidence from Italy shows that ID cards did nothing to stem the flow of illegals entering there.
Many people have very well founded concerns over migration and the pressures it puts on services such as hospitals, housing and the threats it can pose to the jobs market, etc. Labour appear to be exploiting these concerns – a digital ID is not the solution. Giving false hope to the public that you have a solution to these problems will only breed yet more public discontent and loss of faith in government.
Given your position as MP you must understand how a digital ID will more likely divide communities and make access to work and services harder for many. As there is a strong public push back against digital ID, have you considered how the public’s non-compliance with digital ID will affect the economy? How many more people will become unemployed due to this? Could such a law push more people into poverty? It is very likely that digital ID laws will, maybe unintentionally, discriminate against and punish working people, particularly those on low incomes, migrants and the elderly or disabled. Access to government services, healthcare, education, jobs, housing, etc. should not be privileges, but given rights. No one should have to prove themselves via digital ID to have them.
If digital IDs are therefore not serving the people of the UK, who are they serving? Who is really benefiting? The markets, the technocrats, the IT companies, Tony Blair and his son, Euan, other tech giants from America to China. It is not the government’s job to line their pockets in the name of security or efficiency or progress for the British public. The reality is that Digital IDs involve handing a huge amount of power over to the state and to mega corporations, forever. Once ensnared, people will not be able to function outside of this system, thus creating a subclass of people excluded from society. We saw a glimpse of this during Covid with the Vaccine passports and mandates. Around 100k NHS workers stood their ground and refused. Imagine this extrapolated out across all industries within the UK.
Already, we are hearing that the digital ID can be used for everything from reporting pot-holes to collecting your Clubcard points. This mass collection and sharing of data on individuals is highly dangerous and flawed with so much potential for fraud and unprecedented control. With Tony Blair’s think tank even proposing digital IDs could be used to allow neighbours to ‘inform’ on each other in return for the reward of a community impact score, and the huge increase in national mass surveillance, it is easy to see how soon the UK could soon end up with a Chinese style social credit system.
Digital ID must be rejected before it has even started down the slippery slope to a full blown control of the citizen by the state.
I firmly believe that technology should serve us, not control us. I would very much appreciate your agreement and a public statement on why you will be rejecting this proposal for a compulsory Digital ID.
Please make an appointment time/date available for us to discuss this matter.
Best regards
{Insert your name and address}