Edition 15 - The PCA Rejects Invite to 'Cashless' Labour Party Conference 2025
Posted on: 21/08/2025
A Payment Choice Alliance Newsletter
The Payment Choice Alliance Rejects Invite to ‘CASHLESS’ Labour Party Annual Conference 2025!
The 2025 Annual Conference of the UK Labour Party will take place in Liverpool from Sunday 28 September to Wednesday 1 October. The Annual Conference venues are the ACC, ECL and the Pullman Hotel - and all are ‘CASHLESS’!
The Payment Choice Alliance told the Labour Party categorically that we would not attend the event if the venues were ‘cashless’.
The warning was not heeded.
The organisers of the Labour Party Conference begged us to take our usual Stand at the event and even offered us free tickets! We told them that ‘free’ was too expensive, if it meant we were collaborating with them on the imposition of ‘cashless’.
None of the UK’s neighbours, including Ireland, allow businesses to impose ‘cashless’.
Why do the British public deserve less freedom to use their cash than the Irish, French, Spanish, Dutch, Belgiums, Danes and Norwegians?
In fact, the British public are very clear on their views on the importance of being able to choose to use cash.
Research last month by LINK, the UK ATM Network controlled by the big banks, found that:
- 92% of British adults continue to use cash
- Over 80% believe the option to use cash is important
- 71% believe that cash is vial for personal freedom
This LINK research underlines the Payment Choice Alliance’s own findings, via YouGov, that 71% of British adults want a law passed guaranteeing they can pay using cash, when and where they choose.
It is quite frankly ludicrous that the British Government is so far ignoring the wishes of the British public. This must change now, in 2025.
Which means that the Labour Party Conference Venues MUST accept cash in 2026!
Payment Choice Alliance Participate in TUC Congress!
The Payment Choice Alliance will be participating in the TUC Congress in Brighton in September 2025.
We are looking forward to working with the Trade Unions and Labour MPs they sponsor to deliver what the British public want: Payment Choice.
The British Public Want to Use Cash EVERYWHERE!
Click here to read the full article in the Daily Express
The Post Office has produced research findings which include a list of thirty examples of where/when the British public like to use cash.
That’s a long list.
It’s simpler to conclude that members of the British public frequently choose to use cash, when and where they are allowed to do so.
That explains why only 8% of people responded in the LINK ATB Scheme research recently that they lead entirely ‘cashless’ lives. In the same survey, 71% of adults made clear that cash is vital for personal freedom.
71% of the British adults interviewed told YouGov in 2023 that they favour a law being passed to guarantee they are free to choose to use cash.
Over 70% of The Labour Party MPs interviewed in June 2025 told YouGov they believe a law should be passed giving the British public the right to use their cash, when and where they choose.
The picture is pretty clear and one that Rachel Reeves at HM Treasury will surely understand.
Of course, the HM Treasury idea of Digital Delight is to push up their VAT revenue by squeezing out cash as a payment method.
Sorry, ladies and gents at 1 Horseguards!
The 92% of the British public who continue to use cash are NOT going to accept having their freedom to do so sacrificed for the sake of a little ‘tax grab’. So get cash into your National Payments Vision right NOW.
Moreover, with 51% of votes by the British public enough to remove the UK from the EU, it takes some explaining as to why 71% of the British public - and the MP’s they elected - cannot have their wishes respected in relation to cash.
Over to you, Keir Starmer!
Please Tell Your Friends About The Payment Choice Alliance
The PCA needs all the active supporters we can get! So please tell your friends about YOUR support for the Payment Choice Alliance - and urge them to visit our website to register THEIR support!
THANK YOU.
About Us
The Payment Choice Alliance, founded in 2014 and relaunched in 2023, is a campaigning organisation committed to ensuring the right of the British public to use cash is safeguarded by the passing of a Payment Choice Act.
The Act would give everyone in the UK the right to use their cash, when and where they choose.
The Payment Choice Alliance, which is run by committed volunteers, is also focused on ensuring every community in the UK has convenient cash withdrawal and deposit facilities. The provision of such facilities, along with the legal obligation of businesses to accept cash, will ensure cash remains a viable Payment Choice for the British public for as long as they want to use it.
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