Yorkshire NO2ID

The following two weekends mark the start of our new ‘Stop the ID Con’ campaign. Campaigners from around the region will be heading over to Greater Manchester to warn people not to sign up for a voluntary card. It’s always been the Government’s intention to launch a voluntary scheme, and only make the cards compulsory when a large chunk of the population has signed up to the scheme. Just as Gordon Brown grandstands about ID cards not being compulsory, the IPS has launched a new advertising campaign. The aim of this campaign is to encourage businesses to accept ID cards as a valid form of ID. As more organizations start to recognize ID cards it will become harder and harder to life your life without one. Whilst the scheme will be ‘voluntary’ many people will be conned onto the register, and once on it you can’t get off it.

This Saturday members of Leeds and Bradford groups will be getting the train over to Rochdale to run a stall in the town, members of Sheffield NO2ID will be heading over to hold a stall in Oldham and Selby will be running a stall in Stockport. If you would like to join them then send an email through to yorkshire@no2id.net

Then the following weekend on the 17th we are planning a day of action on Manchester City Centre, this will compose of numerous street stalls and public meeting at 3.30pm in the Friends meeting house on Mount Street. Our National coordinator Phil Booth will be speaking so if you have any questions or want to help get together with other people and plan our joint opposition to the scheme now is the time to do so.