SeaJack
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Cashless is very useful, but it’s not without its issues, so a backup to it is most definitely needed.
I remember the contactless systems going down in the local Sainsbury’s in Swansea with no sign of them being put back online, so the readies came to the rescue that day for all the shoppers at the tills.
Just imagine what would have happened if there wasn’t this secondary option to pay for the groceries?
It would have been utter carnage and panic in there.
As for the ID Card imposition, I do question at what cost it would be for the country to bear with one politician citing it being in the region of £11b with the operation costs coming in at around £1b a year to start with.
I also question what’s in store for us as citizens once it’s been introduced.
The Labour headline grabber is for it to prevent immigrants working illegally in this country, which is no bad thing.
The devil is in the detail, however, and it remains to be seen just how much surveillance and invasion of privacy it affords the Government.
I liken it to the purity of one of humankind’s greatest achievements when the Wright brothers first took to the skies successfully.
I get the feeling that it could well become bastardised in the future, as it was when the early planes were eventually armed with bombs and guns for the purposes of going to war.
Similarly it’s the same with the ID Card. It’s not what they do with it now, as the concept is wholly understandable with regard to immigrants working illegally.
Rather, it’s what they intend to add to it later once it’s been introduced into the public sphere is what I’m concerned about.
There will be some who’ll embrace it wholeheartedly as a utopian dream whilst there’ll be others who will decry it as a dystopian nightmare.
Either way, I myself am concerned about its introduction, as they haven’t really gone into enough detail about what’s involved, especially when you consider the societal change that it will herald.
Maybe rather than it being foisted on us, it would be better to have a referendum, with the for and against debates on either side arguing their cases as to why or why not it should or shouldn’t be introduced before it goes to a vote?
I myself would certainly feel more comfortable having the nuts and bolts of what is to be gained, and crucially, what is to be lost laid out before me, once we have been “tagged” effectively.
I remember the contactless systems going down in the local Sainsbury’s in Swansea with no sign of them being put back online, so the readies came to the rescue that day for all the shoppers at the tills.
Just imagine what would have happened if there wasn’t this secondary option to pay for the groceries?
It would have been utter carnage and panic in there.
As for the ID Card imposition, I do question at what cost it would be for the country to bear with one politician citing it being in the region of £11b with the operation costs coming in at around £1b a year to start with.
I also question what’s in store for us as citizens once it’s been introduced.
The Labour headline grabber is for it to prevent immigrants working illegally in this country, which is no bad thing.
The devil is in the detail, however, and it remains to be seen just how much surveillance and invasion of privacy it affords the Government.
I liken it to the purity of one of humankind’s greatest achievements when the Wright brothers first took to the skies successfully.
I get the feeling that it could well become bastardised in the future, as it was when the early planes were eventually armed with bombs and guns for the purposes of going to war.
Similarly it’s the same with the ID Card. It’s not what they do with it now, as the concept is wholly understandable with regard to immigrants working illegally.
Rather, it’s what they intend to add to it later once it’s been introduced into the public sphere is what I’m concerned about.
There will be some who’ll embrace it wholeheartedly as a utopian dream whilst there’ll be others who will decry it as a dystopian nightmare.
Either way, I myself am concerned about its introduction, as they haven’t really gone into enough detail about what’s involved, especially when you consider the societal change that it will herald.
Maybe rather than it being foisted on us, it would be better to have a referendum, with the for and against debates on either side arguing their cases as to why or why not it should or shouldn’t be introduced before it goes to a vote?
I myself would certainly feel more comfortable having the nuts and bolts of what is to be gained, and crucially, what is to be lost laid out before me, once we have been “tagged” effectively.
