Dear Becky

Open letter.

I am among your many constituents who have signed a petition to cease and desist from undemocratically imposing Digital ID (Britcard) on British Citizens.

1. My passport is my identity and is safe under lock and key. It won't disappear when the battery runs out on my phone or when the electricity goes down, or when signal is poor. The same goes for my driver's license. I proved my identity with my passport to get my National Insurance number when I was 18. In every job I have had, I have proven my identity with my passport, provided my proven National Insurance number. I proved my identity in person to the bank. The bank should not require any further identity and certainly not Digital Identity. The same goes for my driver's license. I totally reject any need for a paperless, easily hacked, digital identity.

2. I am one of two lasting power of attorneys for my now mentally incapable mother. How does the authoritarian state intend to provide digital identity for such a person? Be aware, I had to prove identity when this power was given to me. I reject any notion that such persons will become wards of the authoritarian state particularly the authoritarian NHS One Health. The state to date, has shown little regard for the elderly in this position or the elderly in general, treating them as a burden on the state.

3. My bank account, my purchasing records or my medical details are not for state consumption. It literally has nothing to do with any state official. Not a single person on this planet should have power over my privacy. My life is my own and I will not be reduced to a number, a barcode or an app via an outside company such as Palantir. This is a data breach and untenable.

4. Does Tony Blair, who tried this in 2010, run the country via Starmer? It certainly seems that way.

5. Hackers can get into everything. I refuse to allow all my data to be in one place to hand my life to them on a silver platter courtesy of the state.

6. This is already a highly censored and authoritarian place. Why should I trust the state? The same state that gives more credence to big corporations than to the people they are supposed to serve. The same state that chooses which "experts" to whom they listen and censors the rest? Why are Larry Fink and Bill Gates such frequent visitors to parliament? Why does the state sit in obedience to unelected supranational NGOs such as the UN, WHO, NATO, the BIS, IMF and WEF? Why does the state use "Nudge Units" and undeniable social engineering techniques?

7. Will there be mission creep with Britcard? Of course there will be. It's a given. Abortion was brought in under compassionate grounds for the rare exception. Look at it now! Divorce the same thing. And so it will be with Assisted Dying and Britcard. It's a matter of time before we are in the carefully planned, executed and inescapable digital cage. Enslaved by the all powerful state.

8. The state loves creating the chaos to provide the solution that they wanted enforced in the first place. It is a pattern throughout history. It is so blatantly obvious now as is the UN threat that "No one will be left behind".

9. Britcard is being brought in without any semblance of democracy. Forget the large majority in government. It was through the votes of a mere 20% of the electorate.

10. The state is at odds with the citizens. That is a serious issue and it is the state overreach and not the citizens at fault.

I will not sign up for total digital control and a full on surveillance state. Such stuff is of the power hungry corporations and supranational NGOs.

Sincerely
Karin Schroeder