Once again, the Labour Government lets down young people and, without a hint of irony, those most closely monitored, surveilled and heavily taxed in the country: young people in London.

I had the great benefit of studying at UCL but living in ‘Zone 7′, not withstanding the eerie 1984 connotations that has, I had the misfortune of being forced to have a photo ID Travelcard.

CF is leading the way in encouraging young people to take an active interest in politics and has produced an inspiring video highlighting this.
As you know our forward thinking organisation is now technologically savvy with it’s own dedicated CFTV Officer. The video captures the sprit of CF activism – showcasing our passion and commitment at the N02ID rally on Tuesday 6th October at the Conservative Party Conference. The rally had a fantastic turnout of people willing to defend their civil liberties and personal freedoms and was organised by CF and …

It has been another very successful Party Conference for Conservative Future.

For those who couldn’t make it to Conference I thought I should offer this post to summarise what we got up to:

CF training conference

For the second year running we held a training event the day before the main Conference started.

Tuesday 6th October at 12:30pm

Albert Square, Manchester

Conservative Future has been supporting NO2ID, the campaign against the ID card & National Identity Register, for 18 months now and we’ll be helping to host a rally in Manchester during the Conservative Party Conference.

As you know CF backs NO2ID and I enclose below some details on an upcoming event they are doing:

NO2ID is launching a London-wide activist group to help raise the profile of NO2ID within London.

The first of these quarterly gatherings will be a FREE showing of the excellent documentary film ‘Taking Liberties’ followed by a talk and a call to action from Phil Booth, NO2ID’s National Coordinator.

This evening will be on 18th June from 7pm at 29A Chamberlain House, Phoenix Road, London NW1 1EU (Entrance on Ossulston Street).

Is it just me or are we living in Orwell’s 1984? Jacqui Smith has taken time out from shopping with her taxpayer’s credit card to take our freedom away.

I try to do this without sounding like Mel Gibson in Braveheart but ‘they will never take our freedom!’ Oh wait they have.

I’m talking about the silly ID cards and the DNA database.

Today in Manchester Labour’s expensive, unworkable ID Card scheme was rolled out. The government is oblivious to the illiberal nature of requiring people to carry ID Cards, their own incompetence at securely holding our data, or the fact that any and all ID documents have been forged by those with sufficient impetus to do so. ID Cards will be no different.

They’re an expensive imposition on every Briton’s liberty which won’t make our nation safer.

This year’s Spring Forum was one of the best yet; we had over 2,000 people down in Cheltenham and a lot of them were CF members! Below is a summary of the activities that CF was involved with over the weekend.

Cheltenham Surge – several CF members, including myself and Michael Rock, arrived early on Saturday morning to help deliver a special conference leaflet for Mark Coote, the PPC for Cheltenham. By the end of the weekend 22,000 leaflets had been delivered to residents of the constituency – a great effort!

Many of you will be aware of CF backs NO2ID: our support of NO2ID, the campaign against the Government’s planned ID card and National Identity Register.

Many CF branches have being getting out and about to collect signatures for petitions agaisnt ID cards and we want to utilise the large CF prescence at the Spring Forum to alert the public in Cheltenham to the cost of having ID cards.

On a grey misty morning, twelve young and rather drowsy conservatives roll up on the 05.42 from Penzance carrying with them not just a hangover, but an important petition.

This petition contains hundreds of names collected from the Combined Universities in Cornwall, demanding the government drop the outlandish, exorbitant, and worryingly invasive ID card system and its database.