🚨There is an ENORMOUS power grab today with Govt publishing a new law to
- take money directly out of our bank accounts
- revoke our driving licenses (!)
- constantly monitor the population’s bank statements
- search houses + devices
Unprecedented and outrageous - a🧵
- take money directly out of our bank accounts
- revoke our driving licenses (!)
- constantly monitor the population’s bank statements
- search houses + devices
Unprecedented and outrageous - a🧵
Labour (!) ministers are selling this on the premise of ‘the biggest fraud crackdown in a generation’ - it’s actually one of the biggest assaults on the welfare system in a generation.
It’s part of a wider plan that is turning British welfare into a digital surveillance system.
It’s part of a wider plan that is turning British welfare into a digital surveillance system.
We all want genuine fraudsters to face the law - especially multi-millionaire tax avoiders and Covid scammers…
But these extreme powers are not only about fraud but about correcting the government’s own frequent payment errors.
And they set a truly chilling precedent in law.
But these extreme powers are not only about fraud but about correcting the government’s own frequent payment errors.
And they set a truly chilling precedent in law.
Under these powers
- Spying on your bank account will happen without ANY suspicion of wrongdoing
- Seizure of money from your bank account can happen WITHOUT a trial or court hearing
- Driving licenses be revoked*
(*In what other context can such a basic freedom be revoked?!)
- Spying on your bank account will happen without ANY suspicion of wrongdoing
- Seizure of money from your bank account can happen WITHOUT a trial or court hearing
- Driving licenses be revoked*
(*In what other context can such a basic freedom be revoked?!)
It’s breathtaking that a Labour Govt is creating a second tier justice system reserved for people who rely on welfare that side-steps fair hearings in courts to take away people’s funds and freedoms.
Lives will be destroyed by mistaken punishments.
Lives will be destroyed by mistaken punishments.
This affects us all, with the elderly, disabled & people on the poverty line at serious risk.
These are totally unprecedented privacy intrusions & punishments - that will do far more damage to our fundamental British values of fairness and justice than to the serious fraudsters.
These are totally unprecedented privacy intrusions & punishments - that will do far more damage to our fundamental British values of fairness and justice than to the serious fraudsters.
Please SIGN + SHARE our petition to #StopBankSpying
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…
And back the campaign at StopBankSpying.com
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…
And back the campaign at StopBankSpying.com
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