CBDCs: An update on Central Bank Digital Currencies for the UK

A CBDC seems to combine the worst of both worlds, threatening both centralised control by the state but also access to your extremely sensitive data for private companies

https://togetherdeclaration.org/an-update-on-a-central-bank-digital-currency-for-the-uk/

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ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: "A lot of people with Down Syndrome are worried about the assisted dying law. We are worried about being pressurised into it"

(Tommy) This Bill could endanger the most at-risk in society

Graphic - National Down Syndrome Policy Group

"The issue with calling a majority of the British public people 'far right', is it loses any sense of meaning" (Alan Miller)

Instead of resorting to name-calling, we should discuss ideas and address concerns, from all viewpoints

That’s how society progresses

Stronger #together

COVID: "You failed me... you failed to ask whether lockdown was effective... thousands of people have died"

Rod Humphris stands for the millions impacted by lockdown and the devastating harm it caused

#NeverAgain

(Flashback: Apr 19, 2021)

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FACIAL RECOGNITION: UK's first 'permanent' facial recognition cameras installed amid privacy concerns

Where is the consent from the British public?

Why do we 'need' this?

ASSISTED SUICIDE: "It’s not a choice at all"

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson explains how disabled women could be kept in abusive relationships and made more vulnerable because of the Assisted Suicide Bill

This Bill could endanger the most at-risk in society

Amendments to protect vulnerable groups were rejected - for disabled people, those with dementia, those with Down’s Syndrome, people with mental health conditions such as eating disorders

If you are concerned by this Bill and the way it has been handled, it is important to contact your MP⬇️
https://togetherdeclaration.org/campaigns/assisted-dying-bill-contact-your-mp/

"I'm not normally one for using phrases like 'regime propaganda', but having just finished Adolescence, it’s hard to resist"

This "heavy handed morality tale… clearly wants to 'shape the conversation'"

https://thecritic.co.uk/adolescence-is-an-absolute-clunker/

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FACIAL RECOGNITION: "Slide into a dystopian nightmare"

"UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras to be installed in south London despite backlash"

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-installed-london-croydon-b1218431.html

ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: "This is not healthcare"

Danny Kruger’s final speech on the last day of the committee

Kim Leadbeater now proposes changing purpose of NHS forever

Instead of “improving” health as outlined in NHS founding Act 1946, her new amendment would change this

"Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists"

"More than 20 Met Police officers broke down front door to arrest 6 women who had met to discuss climate change & Gaza"

We need free speech & protest rights for all #together

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ea7dabfe-85aa-4e1f-bb0f-4100570278a9

"Netflix’s Adolescence is a Trojan horse for online censorship and surveillance policy"

"A four-part sob story about screen time is being used to rewrite the rules of the internet"

"All in the name of 'safety', of course"

https://reclaimthenet.org/adolescence-trojan-horse-for-online-censorship-surveillance

FACIAL RECOGNITION: "UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London"

This kind of surveillance violates basic principles of our democracy

Why do we 'need' this?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/uk_facial_recognition/

POLICING: Times producer Maxie Allen complained about his daughter's school online then 6 police officers turned up

Police overreach now seems to be the norm in the UK

ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: "I've got the ability to go out and enjoy life, so I don't want somebody coercing me into ending my life"

Ann Macfarlane a disabled rights activist, speaks to Together about why she is against the Assisted Suicide Bill.

This Bill could endanger the most at-risk in society.

Amendments to protect vulnerable groups were rejected - for disabled people, those with dementia, those with Down’s Syndrome, people with mental health conditions such as eating disorders.

If you are concerned by this Bill and the way it has been handled, it is important to contact your MP ahead of the vote. - Here’s how⬇️
https://togetherdeclaration.org/campaigns/assisted-dying-bill-contact-your-mp/

#disabledwoman #hope #ukpolitics

FARMER STRIKE

Farmers to stage sector’s first ever strike by refusing to supply milling wheat in protest against Rachel Reeves inheritance tax raid which will end many family farms

If we have empty supermarket shelves it will be on you

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34174125/hot-cross-bun-shortage-farmers/

FACIAL RECOGNITION: "Time to stop steady slide into dystopian nightmare"

This kind of surveillance violates right to privacy, right to go about our business without undue interference & the right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty

https://www.gbnews.com/news/facial-recognition-cameras-permanent-croydon-police-first

ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: "Ten myths about assisted suicide"

"British MPs must reject the emotional manipulation and dodgy statistics that plague the ‘assisted suicide’ debate"

"Opening the floodgates to something deeply sinister"

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/10/16/ten-myths-about-assisted-suicide-2/

CENSORSHIP INDUSTRY: "What is the Censorship Industrial Complex and how is it affecting our free speech rights?"

"Censorship industrial complex operates on global scale"

"'Hate Speech' legislation is a tool for the Censorship Industrial Complex"

https://adfinternational.org/commentary/what-is-censorship-industrial-complex