In the latest attempt to move to an Orwellian society, everyone in the UK who recieves state benefits will have their bank account monitored.
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The alleged aim is to identify fraud amongst welfare claimants.
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This is bad enough! However, in the UK, all pensioners recieve a state pension, and millions of parents recieve child benefits. These are "universal" benefits which almost everyone gets.
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Effectively, this new law means nearly every household will have their bank account monitored by their bank.
This will be an automated process. Any "suspicious activity" will be reported.
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The Welfare State has moved far away from it's original purpose and become a trap to force through increasing state control of people's lives...
38 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK 24 Feb
yes, wonderful! more state slaves and dependents, more control, until this construct finally collapses under its own weight.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @shado_op OP 24 Feb
The irony is that this power is being introduced in legislation nominally intended to protect people's information and privacy!
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 24 Feb
Thanks for sharing. I know someone who has been living off the state (by choice) for a few decades. I told him this was coming but he acts like I'm just imagining things that will never happen.
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 24 Feb
Unpaywalled:
https://archive.vn/ML0Nv
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shado_op OP 24 Feb
Thanks!
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25 sats \ 3 replies \ @Nuttall 24 Feb
The welfare state always has been about this. If the currency was a stable denominator there would be no need for welfare. Since there is a need for welfare due to currency inflation there needs to be currency inflation to maintain welfare.
All welfare is surveillance. If no one sees you then no one needs to feed you.
If you see each other you will feed each other. Unfortunately the state is invisible and is merely a device that unskilled grifters use to exercise violence and extract wealth; against and from skilled humans.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @shado_op OP 24 Feb
I feel in its historical context, there was a genuine need at the end of WW2, which is where most of the UK welfare state originates.
It's gone way beyond that now and is broken, like most of the UK.
The problem is how to fix it; millions now depend on welfarism. It's called the Benefit Trap for a reason...
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Nuttall 24 Feb
The central banking, Fiat system, created WWI, WWII and every war.
It's easy to fund wars with a wealth extraction method where price discovery occurs using tokens or sigils. The sigils are full of symbols to evoke authority, nationalism and wealth but they are created without any value other than implied or rudimentary psychological symbolic value.
Here is the famous Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollar bill. People make fun of it but it is the end result of all central banking. The government will change, the notes will change but the reality is the THERE IS EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF WEALTH IN THE WORLD THAT THERE ALWAYS HAS BEEN!
From SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN by Dr. Albert Churchward.
Get the book for free here: The Signs And Symbols Of Primordial Man : Albert Churchward : Free
The people who run the financial systems are very well connected and very well read. They are not stupid. They strive to manipulate perception, dependency and the violence for the Monopoly.
GOVERNMENT literally means mind control.
It means, To Steer the Mind, central banking is in charge of all government. It's one of the principles of Marxism.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 24 Feb
thanks, will take a look at the book
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 25 Feb
Socialist playbook working as planned, you get in for the goodies that you thought you paid for and were entitled to until you realize it was all a trap. Make everybody depend on the state so that they can never speak badly against it, biggest rug pull run ever
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