Middlesbrough Council MUST Think Again On Going “Cashless”!
Posted on: 26/08/2024It’s good to see the BBC News highlighting such stories of “cashless” folly. What do Middlesbrough Council think they are up to?
A “significant reduction in demand” led them to close their cash office? The reality?
Some officious Bean Counter in the Council, who probably uses an app to advise on underwear changes, thinks that “progress” is imposing “cashless” on the local community. Chris Cooke, the Mayor of Middlesbrough, vowed after being elected that the council he leads would become "a service-led organisation".
How does going “cashless” deliver a better service to those local people who need or want to use cash?
For a Council run by The Labour Party to impose “cashless” has to be totally unacceptable.
Chris Cooke and the group of Councillors he leads need to think again, even before a UK Payment Choice Act compels them to do so.
It would be shameful if Middlesbrough Council waited for the law to force them to do the right thing for the the public whose interests they have vowed to safeguard.
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