News Archive 2024

Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey has identified that constituencies with a GAIL's Bakery are winnable? Gail’s are, of course, “cashless”, presumably on the basis that it’s easier to get people to pay those prices when they are not actually giving a thought to how much they are spending…. Such prices may be required to put the icing on the cake for Bain Capita....

Who would have believed it? App outages - how could that EVER happen? 🙁🙁🙁🙁 The harsh reality is they are CONTINUALLY happening! Cash NEVER crashes; it is NEVER hacked. Relying 100% on systems we all KNOW are bound to fail would be the ultimate folly. Which is why the British public will NEVER accept a “cashless” UK being imposed on them! Source: bb....

It is absolutely true that cash doesn’t crash - but that won’t retain cash as a payment choice for the public without legislative action. Banks in Australia have been pushing the country towards “cashless” for at least the last 15 years. They have no intention of stopping. One academic quoted in this article states, whilst seemingly predicting that Australia will be &ldq....

A useful article from MoneySavingExpert.com However, “protecting cash” involves far more than just basic access, which is what communities get, for example, from a counter service only post office. Full “protection” can only be provided through 24/7 availability of cash and multiple convenient access points, in each community where cash is being “protected”. ....

The main thing to focus on in this article is this quote: “Since 2019, people have voted with their feet and chosen the convenience of contactless payments, or shopping online. Today, 14 per cent of people say they never carry cash.” When YouGov carried out a recent for the Payment Choice Alliance, only 13% of those interviewed said they wanted a “cashless” society. So w....