The same as he finds out anything, he would be told by people in the know. He could easily make it law that NHS staff tell him about anyone they deal with who is clinically obese. It would be easy to make it so if someone is known to have a drink issue they can legally make it so if they tried to buy booze their card would automatically decline the transaction.
You seen what's happening with law abiding people being sanctioned here just for being Russian? Well do you not think if we went cashless so everyone had to buy things without cash the government wouldn't use that as a way to make the public do as they say? You've a criminal record so we are freezing your bank. You're overweight we are freezing your bank. You were at a protest against us we are freezing your bank.Wheee on
where on earth did you get the idea they’d switch your money off for buying things bad for the environment?that’s not what the press release says in any way
I'm sorry to read about your brother. Banks aren't charities though. They still have to pay business rates, rent, wages and utilities bills. The footfall in our town centre is non existent, more and more is being done online. I speak to a lot of retired people for my job role and they are better online than I am. Times change and we have to keep up. I'm sure you can pay money into bank accounts via a local postoffice, our village post office offers the service.
Cardless in the coronavirus crisis
My brief experience of joining the unbanked showed the challenges faced by millionswww.ft.com
UK cashless society a step closer as more than 23m people abandon coins
Report predicts cash will account for just 6% of payments within decade, prompting fears millions will be left behindwww.theguardian.com
The worry on here and peoples experiences is not that cash is disappearing but that it is becoming harder and harder to use and even access in many places. And the very real problems surrounding the alternatives. Dismissing peoples real life experiences as fearmongering is naive in the extreme.
The town my parents live in full of elderly folk has gone from 5 banks to no banks. Similar story in many rural towns. My brother was banned from 3 out of the 4 shops still open during lockdowns for wanting to use cash in one and getting upset when he couldn't. He is autistic and they used some sort of stopwatch scheme to ban him . He was isolated from family and can't shop online.True and worrying to me story.
You have online banks like these where for pocket money, birthday money from family, cash from jobs around the house etc it gets put on a card your child can use in shops so they don't risk getting robbed if carrying cash.......
www.theguardian.com
Exactly. Freedom of choice is important, regardless of which choice you wanna make.
Thankfully I do already have more then more account elsewhere, but kept the Halifax ones open as they were my oldest accounts.
I too have had my shopping paid for more than once via contactless, but as I don’t have one it wasn’t mine. I still don’t have one and won’t
Omg. I hadn't heard this story but I hVe heard of similar in London when I was a teenager when people didn't have money onbtheir oyster. I've been let on as an adult with no money on mine to go to work in the morning I cannot fathom why bus drivers would let a woman at night be in a dangerous situation
Yes, there are often technical issues. It wouldn't be efficient enough.
I'd say the opposite tbh, I find it much easier to do all these things with card. I can categorise all my spending on my card each month, I can create seperate pots for my spending each month and get instant notifications on my phone to say how much i've spent or if i'm coming close to hitting my budget
A lot of people including myself don't even carry wallets let alone cash
I mean this with the upmost respect, please get help.
Lots of bus drivers don't seem to want to faff on with change, especially people paying with notes. I can understand them not wanting to carry cash.
He doesn't care about anybody but himself, if there is a bandwagon he'll leap on it. The man is a moron. Cash won't be going anywhere, as a society we have found another way of paying and transferring money and it's easier. I don't remember this uproar when cheques weren't accepted anymore. I work long hours and if I can save a bit of time and not have to drive to a cash machine then I have no problem with that.
It has failure written all over it.
Rishi Sunak plans to replace our cash with official digital currency
In what Treasury insiders say would be the biggest upheaval in the monetary system for centuries, the Bank of England would establish a direct digital equivalent to physical money.www.dailymail.co.uk
thoughts on this?
