Yes, having opposed Conservative plans for surveillance of the bank accounts of benefits claimants, now they’re in government Labour’s ableist ghouls have decided to put these proposals back on the table.
This would basically mean anyone claiming benefits - disabled people, people in low-paid and insecure employment, pensioners - would be treated as a likely criminal. Our bank accounts would be subject to surveillance. The discriminatory and invasive nature of these proposals should be clear to anyone. Labour’s bottom line is, if you’re disabled, if you’re elderly and in need, if you’re poor, you’re suspect.
If you’re in the UK, please sign and share this petition. If you’re not in the UK, please share it anyway for reach. We need to kick up an absolute stink about this so that Starmer’s ghouls are forced to back down.
[ID: tags which read “#promising "that no automatic decisions will be made based on data alone #ok but #"data AND” is ok then? Imao already is for them #also they’re like “dont worry! the DWP wont have direct access to your bank account! itll be a third party service!” #cannot wait for someone’s bezzie mate to be given the contract and IMMEDIATELY SUFFER A DATA BREACH #I’d honest to god rather it was the DWP directly at that point because its still a worse case scenario but. a 0.0001% better one". End ID]
