Tories to push ahead with spying on benefit claimants bank accounts!

The Tories sneaked in a spying clause to their Data Protection and Digital Information Bill last night, fixating on finding benefit fraud.
Right, so last night the Tories Data Protection and Digital Information Bill passed third reading and has now been passed onto the House of Lords, but not before the nasty party snuck in a last minute extra bit of nastiness, to force all banks to monitor the accounts of benefit claimants looking for suspected fraud. I can only assume it’s too much to ask they do this for offshore accounts of the rich in the Caymans or British Virgin Islands of course, but no, they’re going to make the banks do broad checks on benefit claimants, in a bid to save half a billion quid over 5 years.
Here’s a thought. How about you do this to Michelle Mone’s bank account instead? Or ask Dido Harding where that £37bn in test and trace cash went? This is yet another culture, yet more persecution for people already struggling in their daily lives with their help, now not knowing if Big Brother is rifling through their finances.
Right so, as if the disabled, the long term sick, the out of work, don’t have enough on their plates right now, as the Tories look set to find them fit for work come what may or die in the process, somehow managing to become even crueller in their plans outlined in the Autumn Statement, now they’ll be spying on your bank accounts too. Worse, there was no objection to it.
Normally when you see one of these votes happening in parliament the speaker of deputy speaker asks for the ayes to the right and the noes to the left and when the noes are loud enough, they call division and MPs trundle off to vote. There was no division regarding this extra clause. The ayes had it, the ayes had it. There was a later division vote on the schedule for bank spying, not the clause the Tories snuck in and just 52 MPs voted against it, just 7 of those were Labour, most were SNP. Starmer in customary style, sat on his hands over this, sat on the fence, a*se full of splinters as per usual.
The allegation, the justification for this rule, is that the number of benefit claimants has gone up since the pandemic, so we’re talking all those people left with Long Covid, or associated other health issues as the obvious target of this move, combined with Hunt’s horrible move to toughen up sanctions even further, to the point of stripping people of their right to access free healthcare, legal aid and more. They allege that with more claimants, comes more fraud, completely ignoring the fact as ever, that benefit fraud is basically negligible, whilst tax fraud is many times greater. Those people might be Tory donors though, or potentially Labour ones these days since they basically nodded this through by providing no opposition to it.
Now the claims made by the government on this are very simple, oh we’re definitely just looking for the fraudsters, we’re looking for those with more than £16,000 in savings, which would mean people are no longer entitled to certain benefits, or we’re looking for those who spend too long overseas.Show more

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