alicemerray.bsky.social
Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!)
But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Similarly my MiL. Staunchly Tory, but was (& is) anti-Brexit & not a raving anti-migrant either.
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'Merica... The home of the Subjection and the land of Cowardice.
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Are they fucking kidding?! 🤣
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Understood the idea was it would be digital only.
But last time a card was proposed, it was going to be £100. With interviews for some people on top.
European IDs are, I gather, pretty cheap.
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How is it to work for the homeless, or the very poor, or people who either can't use, or choose not to use the tech?
What will it cost?
I consider myself progressive, but I'm not in favour, for the reasons I've given as well as for those you give.
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Am sure I heard somewhere that it's no tax on *cash* tips, which ofc are possibly less common now, when more people pay electronically. Also, who would even declare all cash tips? So it maybe sounds like more than it is.
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Also, whatever else, please let them not call it a 'BritCard'! That's just cringey.
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....homeless people? Or the very poor?
If they introduce something inexpensive gradually, say by issuing FoC to every 16 year old going forward and take time to put a decent system in place, I would have more sympathy.
But govts love a whizzy project & this could easily be very bad.
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I have practical objections such as cost. Blair's all-singing, all-dancing version was going to cost people c£100, iirc, & included trips to have interviews in some instances. Plus the tech was dodgy if you weren't white.
So what about....