State to Take Money Directly From Your Bank Account – Contact Your MP!

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Would you be happy to have your bank account spied on at the behest of government – and money removed without your consent?

No, nor would we.

Yet the Labour government’s Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Billbased on legislation drafted by the previous Conservative government (their outlooks are just so different!) would grant the state powers to take money directly out of bank accounts and wage slips, and more besides, in the name of combatting benefit fraud (and the state’s own errors).

This Bill will give the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) the power to have banks actively surveil accounts of people in receipt of benefits – which includes everyone who receives state pension payments – regardless of any evidence of fraud, of even suspicion.

This amounts to around 23 million people right away but in practice is likely to mean banks are forced to scan ALL accounts, with error-prone algorithms.

It will require banks and other financial institutions to share data that might identify benefit fraud, and seize assets from a deceased person’s estate.

The Telegraph reports that it would also compel any and all private companies, including airlines and other transport operators, to hand evidence of people’s movements over to the government.

But actually there’s more – the Bill even includes measures to revoke drivers licences for those who fall foul of this.

Who needs China, when you can have a social credit system right here in the UK?

And all this to save a measly £138m a year according to the last Government – around a quarter of the £500m sent abroad to foreign farmers (while threatening ours at home).

This Bill is being rushed through with the full 100+ page text only published a week ago and a second reading in Parliament TOMORROW.

Campaigners Big Brother Watch have a good template email for MPs HERE – we encourage you to contact yours ASAP.

Others rightly point out that the proposed changes would introduce a level of state-based surveillance incompatible with the presumption of innocence, “a financial snooper’s charter” that disabled activists warn would unfairly target a vulnerable section of the population.

“The basic right to privacy expected by people in the UK should be respected unless there are reasonable grounds to believe that an offence has been committed,” said Caroline Collier from Inclusion Barnet’s Campaign for Disability Justice. “Random fishing expeditions are unacceptable.”

Of course, the DWP is defending the new powers as necessary to “crack down” on benefit fraud. 

They talk about being “targeted” and “proportionate”.

Yes: this comes from the same kinds of people who were happy to close down our entire society… trash our most fundamental rights… and burn £400 BILLION over a flu-like virus a mere couple of years ago.

By the way – take a wild guess what happened to benefit fraud in the Covid period?

They screw up, you pay the price.

The only antidote to a state intruding further and further into our lives is a strong, informed, engaged public asserting itself.

At Together, our small team is working hard every day to make this a reality, so please join us as a member so we can do more, if you haven’t already…

We spread word on these issues whenever we can, explaining in frequent media appearances why things such as keeping cash matter.

We’re organising events and building networks around the UK; with events like this one in London about money and surveillance and this one in Leeds about how to ensure a future free of financial control. We bring people together and share ideas about the challenges we face.

We organise coordinated action by our supporters, providing guidance on how to respond quickly to complex documents such as the government consultation on CBDCs.

But – at a time when the future of freedom is at stake – we badly need to expand our activities and reach more people.

So please join us a member today to support the fight for freedom. The more members we have, the more powerful we will be.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT
We are always stronger and better #together!

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