There was I listening to a report on Today (just realised that link probably won’t work tomorrow, here’s the story from the Grauniad) about people in poor areas not having access to bank accounts, and thus ‘having’ to use loan sharks, and I thought, as is my wont, what a load of bollocks.
Why is there such a push to make everyone have a bank account? Why is it increasingly difficult to live life without one? I’m not one of the tinfoil-hat brigade, but if I didn’t know better, I’d assume there was some secret agency wanting to make sure none of us could live outside the control of the state, that all our financial dealings could be summoned at the press of a button, and that stories like this, under the guise of ’social’ concern, are simply part of a campaign to stop people being able to stay ‘invisible’.